The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 90
And now she noticed that every night the Pig became a man, and every morning he was changed into a Pig before she awoke.
Who acts: pig · What happens: notice, become, change, awake · To what, where: man, morning · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pig), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 noticed | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 noticed | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 became | mark |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pig | det |
| 9 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 changed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 changed | cc |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 morning | det |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 changed | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 changed | aux:pass |
| 19 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 noticed | parataxis |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 Pig | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Pig | det |
| 22 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changed | obl |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 awoke | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 awoke | nsubj |
| 25 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 changed | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | pig | now | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the Pig | a man | night | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | change | past · passive | every morning | into a Pig result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into pig=Result | ||||
| 4 | awake | past | pig | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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