The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 70

When I had finished she touched me with a wand she held in her hand, and instantly I became a hen, and there was an end of my talking!

Who acts: I, Queen, end, my · What happens: finish, touch, hold, become, be, talk · To what, where: me, wand, hand, hen

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Queen, end, my), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 touched	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touched	nsubj
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 touched	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wand	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wand	det
10	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 held	nsubj
12	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wand	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 became	cc
18	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	20 became	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 became	nsubj
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touched	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hen	det
22	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 became	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 was	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touched	parataxis
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 talking	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 talking	nmod:poss
31	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 end	nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	I				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	touch	past	Queen	me		with a wand	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Experiencer with wand=Instrument
3	hold	past	Queen	a wand not said here	Queen's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wand=Theme in hand=Location
4	become	past	I	a hen		instantly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	be	past	a end of my talking		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk		my				nom talking «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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