The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 58

However, he was more powerful than I, and succeeded, when for a moment I was off my guard, in changing me into an Eagle, while my Queen was left in an enchanted sleep.

Who acts: fairy, I · What happens: be, succeed, guard, change, leave, enchant · To what, where: me, Queen, enchanted sleep

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 powerful	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 powerful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 powerful	cop
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 powerful	advmod
6	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 I	case
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 powerful	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 succeeded	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 succeeded	cc
11	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 powerful	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 when	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 guard	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 moment	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 guard	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 guard	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 off	cop
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 I	compound:prt
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 guard	nmod:poss
21	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 succeeded	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 changing	punct
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 changing	mark
24	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 succeeded	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 changing	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 Eagle	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Eagle	det
28	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 changing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 left	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 left	mark
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 Queen	nmod:poss
32	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 left	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 left	aux:pass
34	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 succeeded	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 sleep	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sleep	det
37	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 sleep	amod
38	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 left	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 powerful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fairy				than I; however, powerful property	tree rules
2	succeed	past						vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	guard		I			moment		tree rules
4	change	gerund		me			into a Eagle result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into eagle=Result
5	leave	past · passive		my Queen	a enchanted sleep			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in sleep=Location
6	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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