The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 66
And as he stroked her wings she was changed into a beautiful woman, and he recognised his dear wife.
Who acts: King · What happens: stroke, change, recognise · To what, where: wings, Duck, dear wife
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: who acts (King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stroked | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 stroked | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stroked | nsubj |
| 4 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stroked | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 changed | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | aux:pass |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stroked | ccomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 woman | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 recognised | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 recognised | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 recognised | nsubj |
| 17 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stroked | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wife | amod |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recognised | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stroked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | past | King | Duck's wings | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | Duck | into a beautiful woman result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into woman=Result | ||||
| 3 | recognise | past | King | King's dear wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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