The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 3
One day she changed a tiny turnip into a bee, and sent him off to bring her some news of her lover.
Who acts: princess · What happens: change, send off, bring · To what, where: tiny turnip, bee, news, princess
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 turnip | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 turnip | amod |
| 7 | turnip | turnip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 bee | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bee | det |
| 10 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 sent | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 news | det |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 lover | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lover | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 news | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | princess | a tiny turnip | day | into a bee result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent turnip=Patient into bee=Result | ||
| 2 | send off | past | princess not said here | bee | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | princess not said here | some news of princess's lover | princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination news=Theme |
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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