The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 40

First he turned himself into a horse-fly, and hid himself in Dapplegrim’s left nostril.

Who acts: Dapplegrim · What happens: turn, hide, leave · To what, where: Dapplegrim, left nostril

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 (Dapplegrim), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turned	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 fly	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fly	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct
9	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hid	cc
12	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 hid	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 nostril	case
15	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 nostril	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Dapplegrim	case
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 nostril	amod
18	nostril	nostril	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hid	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim		into a horse fly result; first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into fly=Result
2	hide	past	Dapplegrim not said here	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim's left nostril		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in nostril=Location
3	leave	participle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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