The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 35

‘Then no time must be lost,’ said Hyacinthia, and she immediately turned herself into a river, Prince Milan into an iron bridge, and the charger into a blackbird.

Who acts: Hyacinthia, chase · What happens: lose, say, turn · To what, where: chase, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hyacinthia, chase), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lost	advmod
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl:unmarked
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 lost	aux:pass
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 turned	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 turned	nsubj
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	16 turned	advmod
16	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 turned	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 river	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Milan	punct
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Milan	compound
23	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 river	appos
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 bridge	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bridge	det
26	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bridge	compound
27	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 charger	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 charger	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 charger	det
31	charger	charger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	obl
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 blackbird	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 blackbird	det
34	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	must · passive				then; time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
2	say speech: assert	past	Hyacinthia					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn	past	chase	chase	a river		into a iron bridge; into a blackbird; the charger obl; immediately property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into river=Source into bridge=Trajectory into blackbird=Destination

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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