The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 34

Well! well! times are certainly changed.’

What happens: change · To what, where: times

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 changed	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 changed	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 changed	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 changed	aux:pass
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	8 changed	advmod
8	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 changed	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · passive		times				certainly, well property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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