The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 73

Each of them turned her palace into an egg—for they were all enchantresses—and they taught him how to turn the eggs into palaces, and back again, and they handed over the eggs to him.

Who acts: Each, things · What happens: turn, be, teach, hand · To what, where: palace, egg, Prince, eggs, palaces

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, things), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 turned	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Each	nmod
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 palace	nmod:poss
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 egg	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 egg	det
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 enchantresses	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 enchantresses	case
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 enchantresses	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 enchantresses	cop
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 enchantresses	advmod
15	enchantresses	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 egg	conj
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 taught	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 taught	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 taught	nsubj
19	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 taught	obj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 turn	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 turn	mark
23	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 taught	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eggs	det
25	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turn	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 palaces	case
27	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turn	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 back	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 back	cc
30	back	back	ADV	_	19 taught	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 back	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 handed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 handed	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 handed	nsubj
35	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 taught	conj
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 eggs	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 eggs	det
38	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 handed	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 handed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Each	sister's palace		a egg and enchantresses		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent palace=Theme into egg=Trajectory
2	is	past	things = thing				for enchantresses; all property	tree rules
3	teach speech: other	past	things = thing		Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	turn	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here	the eggs		palaces		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent egg=Theme into palace=Trajectory
5	hand	past	things = thing		Prince	the eggs		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination

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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