The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 158
‘Once a prince, but changed you be Into a flounder in the sea.
Who acts: prince · What happens: change, be · To what, where: you, flounder
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 2 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 prince | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flounder | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 changed | cc |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flounder | nsubj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 changed | obj |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 flounder | cop |
| 10 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 12 flounder | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flounder | det |
| 12 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flounder | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flounder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | you | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | a prince | a flounder | in the sea | tree rules |
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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