The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 25

Among other feats, he could change himself into the shape of any animal, or any other thing that he pleased.

Who acts: boy · What happens: change · To what, where: boy, shape

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 feats	case
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feats	amod
3	feats	feat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 change	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feats	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 change	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 change	aux
7	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 change	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 shape	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shape	det
11	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 animal	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 animal	det
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shape	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thing	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 thing	cc
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 thing	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	parataxis
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 pleased	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pleased	nsubj
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 change	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	could	boy	boy				into the shape of any animal result; among other feats	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into shape=Result

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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