English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 34

“Well then, mother dear, turn the twenty-four dancers and pipers into twenty-four grey herons, and let my seven sons become seven white swans, and let me be a goshawk and their leader.”

Who acts: mother, seven sons, goshawk · What happens: turn, let, become, be · To what, where: four dancers, seven white swans, queen

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 (mother, seven sons, goshawk), 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	_	8 turn	punct
2	Well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 then	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 turn	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	nsubj
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dancers	det
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 four	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 twenty	punct
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 dancers	nummod
13	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turn	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pipers	cc
15	pipers	piper	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dancers	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	21 herons	case
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 four	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 twenty	punct
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 herons	nummod
20	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 herons	amod
21	herons	heron	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turn	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turn	conj
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sons	nmod:poss
26	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 sons	nummod
27	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 become	nsubj
28	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 let	parataxis
29	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 swans	nummod
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 swans	amod
31	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 become	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 let	cc
34	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turn	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 let	obj
36	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 let	xcomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 goshawk	det
38	goshawk	goshawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 be	nsubj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 leader	cc
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 leader	nmod:poss
41	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 goshawk	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn in a quote	infinitive	mother	the four dancers and pipers	then	into four grey herons result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent dancer=Theme into heron=Result
2	let in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	become in a quote	present	my seven sons	seven white swans			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	let in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here	the queen = queen			tree rules
5	be in a quote	infinitive	a goshawk and goshawk's leader				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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