The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 42

For this time we regain our human forms, but then we are changed into swans again.’

Who acts: we, our · What happens: regain, change, form · To what, where: human forms, we, swans

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, our), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 regain	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 regain	nsubj
5	regain	regain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 forms	nmod:poss
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forms	amod
8	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 regain	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 changed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 changed	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 changed	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 changed	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 changed	aux:pass
14	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 regain	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 swans	case
16	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 changed	obl
17	again	again	ADV	_	14 changed	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 regain	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 regain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	regain	present	we	our human forms	time		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	change	present · passive		we	then; again	into swans result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into swan=Result
3	form		our				nom form «communication transitive»: 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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