The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 25
Then she changed herself into a duck, and lay swimming in a lake that was just outside the palace.
Who acts: Princess, lake · What happens: change, lie, swim, be · To what, where: Princess, lake
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, lake), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 changed | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 duck | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 duck | det |
| 7 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lay | cc |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | advcl |
| 11 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lay | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swimming | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 palace | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 palace | cop |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 palace | advmod |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lake | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Princess | Princess | then | into a duck result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into duck=Result | ||
| 2 | lie | past | Princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | Princess not said here | a lake | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a lake | outside the palace | 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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