The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 73

Now they are changed for ever into ravens.’

What happens: change · To what, where: flowers, ravens

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 changed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 changed	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 changed	aux:pass
4	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 changed	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 ravens	case
8	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 changed	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 changed	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · passive		flowers = flower		ravens	now		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for ever=Co-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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