The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 71
As soon as her feet touched the ground she became transformed from a hawk into a woman.
Who acts: feet, woman · What happens: touch, transform · To what, where: ground, drop
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (feet, woman), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 transformed | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 touched | mark |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 touched | nsubj |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 transformed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 transformed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 transformed | aux:pass |
| 11 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 hawk | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hawk | det |
| 14 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transformed | obl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 woman | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transformed | obl:agent |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | drop's feet | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | transform | past · passive | a woman | drop | from a hawk; soon property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient from hawk=Initial_State |
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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