The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 176
‘Is there no way of changing the reindeer into a human being again?’
Who acts: way · What happens: be, change · To what, where: way, reindeer
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 changing | mark |
| 7 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reindeer | det |
| 9 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changing | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 human | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 human | det |
| 12 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 changing | obl |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 again | cop |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 human | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | no way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | gerund | no way not said here | the reindeer | into a human result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent reindeer=Patient into human=Result | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | again property | tree rules |
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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