The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 4

But before he had time to despair the girl uttered some more magic words, and immediately she herself was changed into a pond, and the Prince into a duck swimming on its surface.

Who acts: Fairy, duck · What happens: have, despair, utter, change, swim · To what, where: girl, more magic words, pond, surface

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, duck), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 uttered	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 uttered	advcl
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 despair	mark
7	despair	despair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 despair	obj
10	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 words	det
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 words	amod
13	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 words	amod
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 uttered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 changed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 changed	cc
17	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	21 changed	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 changed	nsubj
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 she	conj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 changed	aux:pass
21	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 uttered	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 pond	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pond	det
24	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 changed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Prince	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Prince	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Prince	det
28	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 uttered	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 duck	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 duck	det
31	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 uttered	obl
32	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 duck	acl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 surface	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 surface	nmod:poss
35	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swimming	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Fairy			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	despair	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here	the girl				tree rules
3	utter speech: other	past		some more magic words			into a duck; the Prince obl	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	change	past · passive		girl			into a pond result; immediately property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into pond=Result
5	swim	gerund	a duck not said here		duck's surface			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory

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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