The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 92

Now we shall hear a little about Maiden Bright-eye When she fell into the water she was fortunate enough to get the bergman’s cap put on her head, for now she was in danger of her life, and she was at once transformed into a duck.

Who acts: we, wretch · What happens: hear, fall, be, get, put, transform · To what, where: little, water, cap, head, danger, wretch

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, wretch), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hear	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hear	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 eye	case
8	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 eye	compound
9	Bright	Bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Maiden	flat
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Maiden	punct
11	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obl
12	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 fell	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fortunate	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fortunate	cop
20	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fell	ccomp
21	enough	enough	ADV	_	20 fortunate	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fortunate	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bergman	det
25	bergman	bergman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cap	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 bergman	case
27	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 cap	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 danger	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 now	case
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 danger	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 danger	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 danger	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 danger	case
38	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 life	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 life	nmod:poss
41	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 danger	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 transformed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 transformed	cc
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 transformed	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 transformed	aux:pass
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 once	case
47	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	48 transformed	obl
48	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fell	conj
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 duck	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 duck	det
51	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 transformed	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	shall	we	a little		now	about Maiden eye	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus
2	fall	past	wretch				into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
3	is	past	wretch				enough, fortunate property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	wretch not said here	the bergman's cap				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cap=Stimulus
5	put	participle		the bergman's cap not said here	wretch's head			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on head=Destination
6	is	past	wretch		danger		of wretch's life	tree rules
7	transform	past · passive		wretch			into a duck result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into duck=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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