The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 27

Soon after this there was a market in the next village, and the boy told his mother that he had learned how to change himself into the shape of any animal he chose.

Who acts: market, boy · What happens: be, tell, learn, change, choose · To what, where: mother, boy, shape, animal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (market, 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 was	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Soon	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 market	det
7	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 village	amod
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 market	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 learned	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 learned	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 learned	aux
22	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 told	ccomp
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 change	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 change	mark
25	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 learned	xcomp
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 change	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 shape	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shape	det
29	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 animal	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 animal	det
32	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shape	nmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 chose	nsubj
34	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 animal	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a market			there	soon property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the boy		boy's mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	learn	past · perfect	boy					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	change	to-infinitive	boy not said here	boy			into the shape of any animal result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into shape=Result
5	choose	past	boy	any animal not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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 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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