The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 31

In her despair the young wife called on the old witch to help her, and in a moment the hunter was turned into a frog and his wife into a toad.

Who acts: couple · What happens: call, help, turn, despair · To what, where: young wife, couple, hunter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (couple), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 despair	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 despair	nmod:poss
3	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wife	amod
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 despair	appos
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wife	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 witch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 witch	amod
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 help	mark
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 witch	acl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 turned	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hunter	det
21	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turned	aux:pass
23	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 despair	acl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 frog	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 frog	det
26	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wife	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 frog	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 toad	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 toad	det
32	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 despair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the young wife not said here			on the old witch	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	to-infinitive			couple			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
3	turn	past · passive		the hunter		moment	into a frog and hunter's wife result; into a toad	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into frog=Result
4	despair		couple					nom despair «state intransitive»: 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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