The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 189

I have nothing to cover me now, poor creature that I am!’ cried the young woman, and transformed herself first into a distaff, then into a wooden beetle, then into a spindle, and into all imaginable shapes.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, cover, cry, transform · To what, where: nothing, imaginable shapes, me, young woman, woman, distaff

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 have	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cover	mark
5	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 cover	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 cover	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 creature	punct
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 creature	amod
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nothing	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 am	obj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 am	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 creature	acl:relcl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 transformed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 transformed	cc
22	transformed	transform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cried	conj
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 transformed	obj
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 transformed	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 distaff	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 distaff	det
27	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transformed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beetle	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 beetle	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 beetle	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 beetle	det
32	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beetle	amod
33	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transformed	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spindle	punct
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 spindle	advmod
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 spindle	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 spindle	det
38	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beetle	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 shapes	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 shapes	cc
41	into	into	ADP	_	44 shapes	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 shapes	det
43	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 shapes	amod
44	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	nothing		all imaginable shapes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	cover	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here	me		now		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Destination
3	cry speech: express	past		the young woman					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
4	transform	past		woman				into a distaff result; first property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into distaff=Result

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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