The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 46
Be quick and change me into a breeze, And make my lover into a midge.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, change, make · To what, where: me, breeze, lover
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 | 4 change | csubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 change | cc |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 change | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 breeze | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 breeze | det |
| 8 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 change | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lover | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 midge | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 midge | det |
| 16 | midge | midge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | imperative | you not said here | me | into a breeze result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into breeze=Result | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | my lover | into a midge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent lover=Material into midge=Product |
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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