The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 47
Then, changing himself into a wolf, he lay down under one of the arches, and waited.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: change, lie down, wait · To what, where: emperor, wolf
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 changing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 changing | punct |
| 3 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 changing | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 wolf | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changing | parataxis |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 arches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 arches | det |
| 16 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waited | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 waited | cc |
| 19 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | emperor | then | into a wolf result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into wolf=Result | |||
| 2 | lie down | past | emperor | under one of the arches; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under one=Location | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | emperor not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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