The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 2

In the day-time she changed herself into a cat or a night-owl, but in the evening she became like an ordinary woman again.

Who acts: woman · What happens: change, become · To what, where: woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	_	5 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 changed	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 changed	nsubj
7	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 changed	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 cat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 changed	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 owl	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 owl	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 owl	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 night	punct
16	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cat	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 became	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 evening	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 evening	det
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 changed	conj
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 woman	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 woman	det
26	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 woman	amod
27	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	obl
28	again	again	ADV	_	23 became	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	woman	woman			time	into a cat or a night owl result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into cat=Result
2	become	past	woman				again; evening	like a ordinary woman	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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