The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 73

The Magician appeared again, and told me that he had transformed my brother into a stag, had reduced our castle and all its defences to miniature and locked them up in a glass box, and after turning all our household into different vapours had banished them into glass phials.

Who acts: Magician, castle · What happens: appear, tell, transform, reduce, miniature, lock up · To what, where: me, brother, stag, castle, defences, glass box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician, castle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Magician	det
2	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 appeared	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appeared	conj
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 transformed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 transformed	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 transformed	aux
12	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 transformed	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 stag	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stag	det
17	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 transformed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reduced	punct
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reduced	aux
20	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 appeared	conj
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 castle	nmod:poss
22	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reduced	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 all	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 defences	det:predet
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 defences	nmod:poss
26	defences	defence	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reduced	obl:unmarked
27	to	to	PART	_	28 miniature	mark
28	miniature	miniature	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 reduced	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 locked	cc
30	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 miniature	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 locked	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 locked	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 box	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 box	det
35	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 box	compound
36	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 locked	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 banished	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 banished	cc
39	after	after	SCONJ	_	40 turning	mark
40	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 banished	advcl
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 household	det:predet
42	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 household	nmod:poss
43	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 turning	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 vapours	case
45	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 vapours	amod
46	vapours	vapour	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 banished	obl
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 banished	aux
48	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 appeared	conj
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 banished	obj
50	into	into	ADP	_	52 phials	case
51	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 phials	compound
52	phials	phial	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 banished	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the Magician				again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Magician not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	transform	past · perfect	Magician	my brother				into a stag result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent brother=Patient into stag=Result
4	reduce	past · perfect	the Magician not said here	our castle				castle's defences obl:unmarked	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer castle=Patient
5	miniature	to-infinitive	the Magician not said here						tree rules
6	lock up	past	the Magician not said here	defences = defence		a glass box			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	turn	gerund		our household					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent household=Theme
8	banish	past · perfect	the Magician not said here	defences = defence		different vapours		into glass phials	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	defend		castle						nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent

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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