The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 24

They never knew when they were safe from him, as he could change himself into a man, woman or child, a stick, a goat, a ploughshare.

Who acts: tricks, France · What happens: not know, be, change · To what, where: France

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tricks, France), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 knew	advmod
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 safe	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 safe	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 safe	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 change	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 change	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 change	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 change	aux
14	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 change	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 change	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 woman	punct
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	conj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 child	cc
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stick	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stick	det
25	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 goat	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 goat	det
28	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stick	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ploughshare	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ploughshare	det
31	ploughshare	ploughshare	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stick	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past	tricks = trick			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	tricks = trick		from France; safe property	tree rules
3	change	could	France	France	into a man and woman or child and a stick and a goat and a ploughshare result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into man=Result

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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