The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 63
The first witch waved her magic wand over the frog, and changed her into the loveliest girl that had ever been seen.
Who acts: first witch · What happens: wave, change, see · To what, where: magic wand, third, loveliest girl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first witch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 witch | amod |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waved | nsubj |
| 4 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wand | amod |
| 7 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waved | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 frog | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 frog | det |
| 10 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waved | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 changed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 changed | cc |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waved | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 changed | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 girl | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 seen | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 seen | aux:pass |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 girl | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | the first witch | third's magic wand | over the frog | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient | |||
| 2 | change | past | the first witch not said here | third | into the loveliest girl result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into girl=Result | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | the loveliest girl | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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