The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 75
Here he hastily changed himself into a bee, and flew straight into the princess’s room, where he became a man again.
Who acts: plan · What happens: change, fly, become · To what, where: plan, room, man
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 changed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 changed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 bee | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bee | det |
| 8 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flew | cc |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | parataxis |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 room | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 room | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 princess | case |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 became | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 became | nsubj |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flew | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 became | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | plan | plan | here | into a bee result; hastily property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into bee=Result | ||
| 2 | fly | past | into the princess's room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result | |||||
| 3 | become | past | plan | a man | again | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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