The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 111

‘Oh, I can tell you that: she has changed herself into a big fish, and her foal into a little one.

Who acts: I, mare · What happens: tell, change · To what, where: foal, you, mare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mare), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 you	nmod:unmarked
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 changed	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 changed	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 changed	aux
12	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tell	ccomp
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 changed	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 fish	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fish	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fish	amod
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 foal	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 foal	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 foal	nmod:poss
21	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 one	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	I	mare's foal	you			into a little one	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	change	present · perfect	mare	mare				into a big fish result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into fish=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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