The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 110

The next day he changed himself into a brown horse and told his father that he was to set off to market with him.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: change, tell, be · To what, where: Jack, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 changed	nsubj
5	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 changed	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 horse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horse	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 set	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 set	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 set	mark
19	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	ccomp
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 set	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 market	case
22	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	Jack	Jack		day	into a brown horse result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into horse=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	Jack not said here		Jack's father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is not said to happen	past	Jack				to market; with horse; set property	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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