The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 61
Changed me, from a happy wife, To a duck for all my life.
What happens: change · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Changed | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wife | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wife | amod |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 duck | punct |
| 9 | To | to | ADP | _ | 11 duck | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 duck | det |
| 11 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changed | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 life | det:predet |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 duck | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | me | from a happy wife; to a duck for my life | tree rules |
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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