The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 72

At last he got hold of another kind of cabbage, but scarcely had swallowed it when he felt another change, and he once more regained his human form.

Who acts: Hunter · What happens: get, swallow, feel, regain, hold, form · To what, where: hold, last, change, human form, kind

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 kind	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 kind	det
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cabbage	case
10	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swallowed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 swallowed	cc
13	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	15 swallowed	advmod
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 swallowed	aux
15	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 got	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 swallowed	obj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 felt	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 felt	nsubj
19	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 swallowed	parataxis
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 change	det
21	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 felt	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 regained	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 regained	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 regained	nsubj
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 regained	advmod
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 regained	advmod
27	regained	regain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 form	nmod:poss
29	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 form	amod
30	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 regained	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Hunter	hold of another kind of cabbage	last		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hold=Theme at last=Asset
2	swallow	past · perfect	Hunter not said here	hold		scarcely property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	feel	past	Hunter	another change			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme
4	regain	past	Hunter	Hunter's human form		once property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
5	hold			another kind of cabbage			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
6	form		Hunter				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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