The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 196

His mother, who was a witch, cast a spell over me and changed me into a Pig.

Who acts: mother · What happens: be, cast, change · To what, where: witch, spell, me

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 (mother), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cast	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 witch	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 witch	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 witch	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cast	punct
9	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spell	det
11	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cast	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 cast	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 changed	cc
15	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cast	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 changed	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 Pig	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Pig	det
19	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 changed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	father's mother and a witch	a witch		tree rules
2	cast	infinitive	father's mother and a witch	a spell	over me	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over i=Destination
3	change	past	father's mother and a witch not said here	me	into a Pig result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into pig=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 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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