The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 46

She began to get quite ill, and in a few days she was so changed that it was difficult to recognise her; formerly she had been rosy and merry, now she was pale and nothing gave her any pleasure.

Who acts: Princess, nothing · What happens: begin, get, change, be, recognise, give · To what, where: Princess, pleasure

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 (Princess, nothing), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 ill	advmod
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 changed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 changed	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 changed	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 changed	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 changed	aux:pass
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 changed	advmod
16	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 began	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 difficult	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 difficult	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 difficult	cop
20	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 changed	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 recognise	mark
22	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 difficult	csubj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 recognise	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 rosy	punct
25	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	29 rosy	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rosy	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rosy	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 rosy	cop
29	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 began	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 merry	cc
31	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rosy	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pale	punct
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 pale	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 pale	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 pale	cop
36	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rosy	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 gave	cc
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 gave	nsubj
39	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 pale	conj
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 gave	iobj
41	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	42 pleasure	det
42	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 gave	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Princess					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	change	past · passive		Princess		day		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past					difficult property	tree rules
5	recognise	to-infinitive		Princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	is	past · perfect	Princess				formerly, rosy property	tree rules
7	be		Princess not said here					tree rules
8	is	past	Princess			now	pale property	tree rules
9	give	past	nothing	any pleasure	Princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pleasure=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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