The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 45
In a moment the Princess Hyacinthia had changed herself, the Prince, and his charger into a thick wood where a thousand paths and roads crossed each other.
Who acts: Princess Hyacinthia, thousand paths · What happens: change, cross · To what, where: road, thick wood, each
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 (Princess Hyacinthia, thousand paths), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hyacinthia | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hyacinthia | compound |
| 6 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 changed | aux |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 changed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Prince | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 charger | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 charger | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 charger | nmod:poss |
| 16 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 19 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wood | amod |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 crossed | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thousand | det |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 paths | nummod |
| 24 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 crossed | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 roads | cc |
| 26 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 paths | conj |
| 27 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wood | acl:relcl |
| 28 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 27 crossed | obj |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 each | fixed |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect | the Princess Hyacinthia | road | moment | into a thick wood result; the Prince obl; Hyacinthia's charger obl | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into wood=Result | ||
| 2 | cross | past | thousand paths and roads | each | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=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 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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