The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 214
This was why she had been changed into a serpent.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, change · To what, where: daughter, serpent
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 changed | aux:pass |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 serpent | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 serpent | det |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | past · perfect · passive | daughter | into a serpent result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into serpent=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 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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