The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 22

Therefore he decreed that one day in every hundred years I should change into a little raspberry worm, and live in that weak and helpless form from sunrise to sunset.

Who acts: sky, one day · What happens: decree, change, live · To what, where: weak form

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky, one day), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 decreed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 decreed	nsubj
3	decreed	decree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 change	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 years	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 day	nmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 change	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 change	aux
13	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 decreed	advcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 worm	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 worm	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 worm	amod
17	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 worm	compound
18	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 live	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 live	cc
21	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 decreed	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 form	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 form	det
24	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 form	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 helpless	cc
26	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 weak	conj
27	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 live	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 sunrise	case
29	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 form	nmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 sunset	case
31	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sunrise	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 decreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	decree	past	sky		therefore property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	change	should	one day in every hundred years		into a little raspberry worm result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into worm=Result
3	live	present	sky not said here	that weak form from sunrise to sunset		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location

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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