The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 110

‘I have forgotten my coarse comb,’ answered the wife, feeling in her pocket, and as she spoke the coach changed into a withered faggot, and the man became a hoodie again, and flew away.

Who acts: I, wife, coach, man · What happens: forget, answer, feel, speak, change, wither · To what, where: coarse comb, wife, withered faggot, hoodie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife, coach, man), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 comb	nmod:poss
6	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 comb	amod
7	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgotten	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feeling	punct
14	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 answered	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pocket	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pocket	nmod:poss
17	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feeling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spoke	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spoke	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 spoke	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spoke	nsubj
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coach	det
24	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 changed	nsubj
25	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spoke	ccomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 faggot	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 faggot	det
28	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 faggot	amod
29	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 changed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 became	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 became	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 became	nsubj
34	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hoodie	det
36	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 became	xcomp
37	again	again	ADV	_	34 became	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 flew	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 flew	cc
40	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 became	conj
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 flew	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present · perfect	I	my coarse comb				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			the wife			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
3	feel	gerund					in wife's pocket	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pocket=Attribute
4	speak speech: other	past	wife					tree rules
5	change	past	the coach				into a withered faggot result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into faggot=Result
6	wither	participle						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	become	past	the man	a hoodie		again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	fly away	past	the man not said here				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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