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The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 63

But his daughter saw him coming, and changed her horse into a plot of ground, herself into a rose-tree covered with roses, and the prince into a gardener.

Who acts: daughter, king · What happens: see, come, change, cover, plot · To what, where: king, rose tree, horse, plot, ground

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, 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

ccnmod:possnsubjobjxcomppunctccconjnmod:possobjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctoblcasedetcompoundpunctoblaclcaseoblpunctccdetparataxiscasedetoblpunctrootButCCONJhisPRONdaughterNOUNsawVERBhimPRONcomingVERB,PUNCTandCCONJchangedVERBherPRONhorseNOUNintoADPaDETplotNOUNofADPgroundNOUN,PUNCTherselfPRONintoADPaDETroseNOUN-PUNCTtreeNOUNcoveredVERBwithADProsesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETprinceNOUNintoADPaDETgardenerNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_4 sawcc
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 daughternmod:poss
3daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing4 sawnsubj
4sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 sawobj
6comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger4 sawxcomp
7,,PUNCT_9 changedpunct
8andandCCONJ_9 changedcc
9changedchangeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 sawconj
10herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 horsenmod:poss
11horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing9 changedobj
12intointoADP_14 plotcase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 plotdet
14plotplotNOUNNumber=Sing9 changedobl
15ofofADP_16 groundcase
16groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing14 plotnmod
17,,PUNCT_18 herselfpunct
18herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes4 sawobl
19intointoADP_23 treecase
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 treedet
21roseroseNOUNNumber=Sing23 treecompound
22--PUNCT_21 rosepunct
23treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing4 sawobl
24coveredcoverVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 treeacl
25withwithADP_26 rosescase
26rosesroseNOUNNumber=Plur24 coveredobl
27,,PUNCT_30 princepunct
28andandCCONJ_30 princecc
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 princedet
30princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing4 sawparataxis
31intointoADP_33 gardenercase
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 gardenerdet
33gardenergardenerNOUNNumber=Sing4 sawobl
34..PUNCT_4 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastking's daughterkinga rose treeinto a gardener; daughter obltree rules
2comegerundking not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3changepastking's daughter not said heredaughter's horseinto a plot of ground resultvn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent horse=Patient into plot=Result
4coverparticiplea rose tree not said herewith rosesvn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rose=Theme
5plotgroundnom plot «cognition transitive»: of=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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