The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 33

The second time the Princess changed herself into a loaf, and laid herself on the table among four other loaves; and she was so like the other loaves that no one could see any difference between them.

Who acts: Princess, one · What happens: change, lay, be, see · To what, where: Princess, loaf, table, other loaves

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, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changed	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 changed	nsubj
6	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 changed	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 loaf	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 loaf	det
10	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laid	cc
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 changed	conj
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 laid	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 table	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
18	among	among	ADP	_	21 loaves	case
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 loaves	nummod
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 loaves	amod
21	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laid	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 loaves	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 loaves	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 loaves	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 loaves	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 loaves	advmod
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 loaves	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 loaves	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 loaves	amod
30	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 changed	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 see	obj
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 loaves	acl:relcl
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 difference	det
37	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
38	between	between	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 difference	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	the Princess	Princess		time	into a loaf result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into loaf=Result
2	lay	past	the Princess not said here	Princess	the table		among four other loaves	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on table=Destination
3	is	past	Princess				like the other loaves	tree rules
4	see	could	no one	the other loaves				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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