The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 186

He felt that some fresh magic must be at work, and in his terror he almost turned away from the house; but then a better idea came to him, and he changed himself into a dove, so that no witchcraft could have power over him, and flew into the room without touching the ladder.

Who acts: husband, fresh magic, better idea, witchcraft · What happens: feel, be, turn away, come, change, have · To what, where: work, terror, husband, dove, power, room

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, fresh magic, better idea, witchcraft), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 work	mark
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 magic	det
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magic	amod
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 work	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 work	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 work	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 work	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 terror	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 terror	nmod:poss
15	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turned	nsubj
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 turned	advmod
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 turned	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 came	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 idea	det
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 idea	amod
28	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 changed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 changed	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 changed	nsubj
35	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	parataxis
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 changed	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 dove	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 dove	det
39	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 changed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 have	punct
41	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	46 have	mark
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 so	fixed
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 witchcraft	det
44	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 have	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 have	aux
46	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 changed	conj
47	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 have	obj
48	over	over	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 have	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 flew	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 flew	cc
52	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	conj
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 room	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 room	det
55	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 flew	obl
56	without	without	SCONJ	_	57 touching	mark
57	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 flew	advcl
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 ladder	det
59	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 touching	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	husband						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	must	some fresh magic			work			tree rules
3	turn away	past	husband			husband's terror		from the house; almost, away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from house=Source
4	come	past	a better idea		husband		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
5	change	past	husband	husband				into a dove result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into dove=Result
6	have	could	no witchcraft	power				over husband	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
7	fly	past	a better idea not said here					into the room result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result
8	touch	gerund	a better idea not said here	the ladder					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ladder=Co-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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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