The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 10
Be quick and change me into a brook, And my lover into a little fish.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, change · To what, where: me, brook
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (you), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quick | cop |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 change | cc |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quick | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 change | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 brook | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 brook | det |
| 8 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lover | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lover | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lover | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brook | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 fish | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fish | amod |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | infinitive | you not said here | me | into a brook and my lover result; into a little fish | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into brook=Result |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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