English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 15

“My name is Florentine, and my mother is a queen, and something more than a queen, for she knows magic and spells, and because I would not do as she wished she turned me into a dove by day, but at night her spells lose their power and I become a man again.

Who acts: name, mother, hush, spells, My · What happens: be, know, spell, not do, wish, turn · To what, where: Florentine, queen, magic, hush, dove, power · 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 (name, mother, hush, spells), 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	_	5 Florentine	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Florentine	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Florentine	cop
5	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 queen	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 queen	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 queen	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 queen	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 queen	det
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Florentine	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 something	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 something	cc
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 queen	appos
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 something	amod
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 queen	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 queen	det
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 more	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knows	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 knows	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knows	nsubj
23	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 something	parataxis
24	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knows	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spells	cc
26	spells	spell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 knows	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 do	cc
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 do	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 do	advmod
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 knows	conj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 wished	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wished	nsubj
36	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 do	advcl
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 turned	nsubj
38	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wished	ccomp
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 turned	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 dove	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 dove	det
42	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turned	obl
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 day	case
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dove	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 lose	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 lose	cc
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 night	case
48	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lose	obl
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 spells	nmod:poss
50	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 lose	nsubj
51	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Florentine	acl:relcl
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 power	nmod:poss
53	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lose	obj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 become	cc
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 become	nsubj
56	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 lose	conj
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 man	det
58	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 become	xcomp
59	again	again	ADV	_	56 become	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Florentine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	My name	Florentine			tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	my mother	a queen			tree rules
3	know in a quote	present	hush	magic			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer magic=Stimulus
4	spell in a quote	present	hush not said here				vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent
5	not do in a quote	would	hush				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wish in a quote	past	hush				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	turn in a quote	past	hush	hush	a dove by day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme into dove=Trajectory
8	lose in a quote	present	hush's spells	spells's power		night	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
9	become in a quote	present	hush	a man		again	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
10	name in a quote		My				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
11	spell in a quote		hush				nom spell «state 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: «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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