The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 45
You are that maiden, and last night at midnight we were freed, and this poor house was again transformed into my royal palace.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, free, transform · To what, where: last night, poor house, royal palace
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 maiden | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 maiden | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 maiden | mark |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 freed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 freed | cc |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 midnight | case |
| 10 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 night | nmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 freed | aux:pass |
| 13 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 maiden | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 transformed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 transformed | cc |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 house | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 house | amod |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 transformed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 transformed | aux:pass |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 transformed | advmod |
| 21 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 freed | advcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 palace | amod |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 transformed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | maiden property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | free | past · passive | last night at midnight | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | transform | past · passive | this poor house | again | into my royal palace result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into palace=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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