The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 10

They believed that witches could turn people into beasts, that beasts could speak, that magic rings could make their owners invisible, and all the other wonders in the stories.

Who acts: stories, witches, beasts, that · What happens: believe, turn, speak, make · To what, where: other wonders, people, beasts, owners · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, witches, beasts, that), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 turn	mark
4	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	aux
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 believed	ccomp
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 beasts	case
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speak	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 speak	mark
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 speak	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 speak	aux
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turn	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 make	nsubj
17	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rings	amod
18	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 speak	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 owners	nmod:poss
22	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	obj
23	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 make	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wonders	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wonders	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 wonders	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wonders	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wonders	amod
29	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 believed	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 stories	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stories	det
32	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wonders	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	past	stories = story	all other wonders in the stories			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	turn	could	witches	people	beasts		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent people=Theme into beast=Trajectory
3	speak speech: other	could	beasts				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	could	that	stories's owners		invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset owner=Product

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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