The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 71
However, she determined to fight to the end, and changed the horse into a deep pool, herself into an eel, and the prince into a turtle.
Who acts: girl · What happens: determine, fight, change · To what, where: turtle, horse, deep pool
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 (girl), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 determined | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fight | mark |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 determined | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fight | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 changed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 changed | cc |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 determined | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 pool | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pool | det |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pool | amod |
| 18 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 herself | punct |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 changed | obl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 eel | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 eel | det |
| 23 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 prince | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 prince | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determined | parataxis |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 turtle | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 turtle | det |
| 30 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determined | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | girl | a turtle | however property | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | girl not said here | to the end | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | change | past | girl not said here | the horse | into a deep pool result; into a eel; girl obl | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent horse=Patient into pool=Result |
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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