The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 126
Then, with one blow of his club, he changed the massive chariot into a perfect mountain of gold pieces.
Who acts: thing, club · What happens: change, blow · To what, where: massive chariot, perfect mountain
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, club), 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 | 11 changed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 blow | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 blow | nummod |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 club | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 club | nmod:poss |
| 8 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blow | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blow | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chariot | det |
| 13 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chariot | amod |
| 14 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 17 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mountain | amod |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pieces | compound |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mountain | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | thing | the massive chariot | a perfect mountain of gold pieces | then | with one blow of thing's club | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme with blow=Co-Agent | |
| 2 | blow | thing's club | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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