The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 85

Nothing did me any good, and at last I was reduced to drawing water for the dyeing of the wools, and even over that I was so slow that this morning the Giant flew into a rage and changed me into a gazelle.

Who acts: Nothing, I, Giant · What happens: do, reduce, draw, be, fly, change · To what, where: me, I, last, water, rage, wools

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Nothing, I, Giant), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 good	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reduced	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reduced	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 reduced	obl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 reduced	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reduced	aux:pass
12	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
13	to	to	SCONJ	_	14 drawing	mark
14	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 reduced	advcl
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drawing	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 dyeing	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dyeing	det
18	dyeing	dyeing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drawing	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 wools	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wools	det
21	wools	wool	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dyeing	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 slow	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 slow	cc
24	even	even	ADV	_	30 slow	advmod
25	over	over	SCONJ	_	30 slow	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 slow	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 slow	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 slow	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 slow	advmod
30	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 reduced	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 flew	mark
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 morning	det
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flew	obl:unmarked
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Giant	det
35	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 flew	nsubj
36	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 slow	advcl
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 rage	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 rage	det
39	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flew	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 changed	cc
41	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 flew	conj
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 changed	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 gazelle	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 gazelle	det
45	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 changed	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Nothing	me				tree rules
2	reduce	past · passive		I	last			vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	draw	gerund		water			for the dyeing of the wools	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Result for dyeing=Beneficiary
4	is	past	I				slow property	tree rules
5	fly	past	the Giant			morning	into a rage result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result
6	change	past	the Giant not said here	me			into a gazelle result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into gazelle=Result
7	dye			the wools				nom dyeing «act transitive»: of=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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