The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 109
‘I thought,’ said she, ‘that my little daughter had changed into a bouquet of roses, and that as I held it in my hand a bird swooped down suddenly and snatched it from me and carried it away.’
Who acts: I, matter, little daughter, that · What happens: think, say, change, hold, swoop down, snatch · To what, where: bouquet, rose, hand, bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, matter, little daughter, that), 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 | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 changed | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 changed | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 changed | mark |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 daughter | amod |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 changed | aux |
| 15 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 bouquet | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bouquet | det |
| 18 | bouquet | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 roses | case |
| 20 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bouquet | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 held | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 held | cc |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 held | nsubj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 held | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 held | nsubj |
| 26 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 held | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 held | obl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bird | det |
| 32 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hand | appos |
| 33 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 bird | acl |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 33 swooped | compound:prt |
| 35 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 33 swooped | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 snatched | cc |
| 37 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 snatched | obj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 me | case |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 snatched | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 carried | cc |
| 42 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 snatched | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 carried | obj |
| 44 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 carried | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | matter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | change | past · perfect | my little daughter | into a bouquet of roses result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bouquet=Result | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | that | rose | my hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 5 | swoop down | participle | a bird not said here | suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | snatch | past | I not said here | rose | from me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from i=Source | |||
| 7 | carry away | past | I not said here | rose | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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