The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 43

The man then turned into a hen, and began to search for the grain of barley, but this again changed itself to a pole-cat, and took off the hen’s head with a single snap.

Who acts: man, this · What happens: turn, begin, search, change, take off · To what, where: barley, head

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 (man, this), 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	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turned	advmod
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 hen	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hen	det
7	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 search	mark
12	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 grain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grain	det
15	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 search	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 barley	case
17	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grain	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 changed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 changed	cc
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 changed	nsubj
21	again	again	ADV	_	22 changed	advmod
22	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 changed	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 cat	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cat	det
26	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cat	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 pole	punct
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 changed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 took	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hen	det
34	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 head	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 hen	case
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	40 snap	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 snap	det
39	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 snap	amod
40	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the man		then	into a hen result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hen=Result
2	begin	past	the man not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	search	to-infinitive	the man not said here			for the grain of barley	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for grain=Theme
4	change	past	this	barley	again	to a pole cat	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
5	take off	past	the man not said here	the hen's head		with a single snap	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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