The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 114
One good pinch, and the magic word transformed him to a stork.
Who acts: magic word · What happens: transform · To what, where: One good pinch
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pinch | nummod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pinch | amod |
| 3 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 transformed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 transformed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 transformed | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | compound |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 transformed | nsubj |
| 9 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 transformed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stork | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stork | det |
| 13 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 transformed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | past | the magic word | One good pinch | to a stork; Caliph obj | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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