The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 222
While you were away the wicked witch came, and turned me into this.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, come, turn · To what, where: me, this
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 away | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 away | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 away | cop |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 witch | amod |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | you | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | turn | past | me | this | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme into this=Trajectory |
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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