The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 33

It was they who changed the little house you saw before you into the fountain for which you are now asking, and, having turned me into a frog, they ordered me to say to the first person who came to the fountain exactly what I repeated to you.

Who acts: control, you, having, fairies, first person, I · What happens: be, see, ask, have, turn, order · To what, where: little house, fountain, me, first person, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (control, you, having, fairies), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 changed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	cop
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 changed	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 changed	nsubj
5	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 house	acl:relcl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 fountain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fountain	det
15	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 asking	obl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 asking	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 asking	aux
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 asking	advmod
21	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fountain	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 turned	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 having	punct
25	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 turned	csubj
26	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asking	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 turned	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 frog	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 frog	det
30	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ordered	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ordered	nsubj
33	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 turned	parataxis
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 ordered	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 say	mark
36	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 ordered	xcomp
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 person	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 person	det
39	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 person	amod
40	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 say	obl
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 came	nsubj
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 person	acl:relcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 fountain	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fountain	det
45	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 came	obl
46	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	47 what	advmod
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 fountain	nmod
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 repeated	nsubj
49	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 what	acl:relcl
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 you	case
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 repeated	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	control					change property	tree rules
2	see	past	you	the little house not said here		the fountain	before you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	you				now	for the fountain	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	gerund							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	turn	past	having	me				into a frog result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Theme into frog=Result
6	order	past	fairies = fairy		me				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
7	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	fairies = fairy not said here		the first person				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to person=Recipient
8	come	past	the first person			the fountain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fountain=Initial_Location
9	repeat	past	I		you				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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