The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 46
“Or has some enchanter changed you into a cat?”
Who acts: enchanter · What happens: have, change · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchanter), 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 | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 has | cc |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 enchanter | det |
| 5 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 changed | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 cat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changed | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | change in a quote | past | some enchanter | you | into a cat result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient into cat=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 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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