The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 31
So he changed himself to a horse, such a fine horse, too, that his father got a high price for it at the market; but after the bargain was made, and the money paid, the boy changed again to his own shape, when no one was looking, and went home.
Who acts: boy, father, money, one · What happens: change, get, make, pay, look, go · To what, where: boy, high price, market, money
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, father, money, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 changed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 horse | punct |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 horse | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 horse | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 got | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 price | det |
| 21 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 price | amod |
| 22 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 market | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 market | det |
| 27 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 made | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 made | cc |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 bargain | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bargain | det |
| 32 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obl |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | aux:pass |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 changed | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 changed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 changed | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 money | det |
| 38 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 changed | nsubj |
| 39 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 money | acl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 paid | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 boy | det |
| 42 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 changed | nsubj |
| 43 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | conj |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 changed | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 shape | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 shape | nmod:poss |
| 47 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 shape | amod |
| 48 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 changed | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 looking | punct |
| 50 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 54 looking | mark |
| 51 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 52 one | det |
| 52 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 looking | nsubj |
| 53 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 looking | aux |
| 54 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 changed | advcl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 went | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 went | cc |
| 57 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 58 | home | home | ADV | _ | 57 went | advmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | boy | boy | to a horse; such fine horse obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | get | past | boy's father | a high price | the market | for price | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent price=Theme for it=Source | ||
| 3 | make | past · passive | after the bargain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 4 | pay | participle | the money not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | change | past | the money | again | to boy's own shape result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to shape=Result | |||
| 6 | look | past · progressive | no one | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | go | past | boy not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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