The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 24

He fell out with an old fairy, who got the better of him by cunning and treachery, and to revenge herself turned his daughter into a goose and carried her off to this distant place.

Who acts: Jem, old fairy, revenge · What happens: fall out, get, turn, carry off · To what, where: daughter, distant place

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (Jem, old fairy, revenge), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 fell	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 fairy	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fairy	amod
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fairy	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 better	det
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 got	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 better	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 cunning	case
16	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 better	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 treachery	cc
18	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cunning	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 turned	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 revenge	mark
22	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	nsubj
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 turned	nsubj
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 goose	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 goose	det
29	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 carried	cc
31	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 carried	obj
33	off	off	ADP	_	31 carried	compound:prt
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 place	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 place	det
36	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 place	amod
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carried	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall out	past	Jem			with a old fairy	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	a old fairy			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn	past	revenge	Jem's daughter		into a goose result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme into goose=Result
4	carry off	past	Jem not said here	daughter	this distant place		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to place=Destination

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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