The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 15
Then she changed herself back into a pea-hen, and the whole nine flew away.
Who acts: maiden, whole nine · What happens: change back, fly away · To what, where: maiden
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 (maiden, whole nine), 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 changed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 changed | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 changed | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 hen | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hen | det |
| 8 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hen | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pea | punct |
| 10 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flew | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nine | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nine | amod |
| 15 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 flew | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change back | past | maiden | maiden | then | into a pea hen result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into hen=Result | ||
| 2 | fly away | past | the whole nine | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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