The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 25
But when he reached the spot, behold, all was changed again!
Who acts: mistake · What happens: reach, change · To what, where: spot, all
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistake), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 changed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 4 reached | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | aux:pass |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 changed | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | mistake | the spot | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | all | again | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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