English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 14
“But who are you then?” she said quite low; “and how came you to be changed into that dear little bird?”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, say, come, change · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 who | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 who | nsubj |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 who | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 who | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 who | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 low | advmod |
| 12 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 came | advmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 came | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 changed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 changed | aux:pass |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 came | advcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 bird | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 bird | nsubj |
| 24 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bird | amod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bird | amod |
| 26 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | low property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | change in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | into dear little bird result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into bird=Result |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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