The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 198

So that instead of the three days that had to run before the spell was broken, I was forced to remain a Pig for three more years.

Who acts: three days, I · What happens: have, run, break, force, remain · To what, where: spell, I, Pig

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 (three days, I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 days	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 So	fixed
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 days	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 days	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 days	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 run	mark
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 broken	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spell	det
14	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 broken	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 broken	aux:pass
16	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 run	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 forced	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 forced	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 forced	aux:pass
20	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 broken	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 remain	mark
22	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 forced	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Pig	det
24	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 remain	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 years	case
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 years	amod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 remain	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	the three days			tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive	the three days not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	past · passive		the spell		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	force	past · passive		I		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	remain	to-infinitive	I not said here	a Pig	year	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pig=Attribute

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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