The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 45

And immediately the king changed all the maidens into ducks, and he drove them before the young man, and said: ‘Now show me which is my daughter.’

Who acts: king · What happens: change, drive, say, show, be · To what, where: maidens, me, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 changed	cc
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 changed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	nsubj
5	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 maidens	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maidens	det
8	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 ducks	case
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drove	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drove	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	nsubj
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	obj
16	before	before	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drove	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	parataxis
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 show	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 show	punct
25	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 show	advmod
26	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 show	iobj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 daughter	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 daughter	cop
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 show	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 show	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	the king	all maidens			into ducks result; immediately property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient into duck=Result
2	drive	past	king	maidens = maiden		before the young man		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before man=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	show	infinitive			me	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	is a	present		my daughter				tree rules

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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