English Fairy Tales, XXII. Molly Whuppie., sentence 7

The change of night-dresses occurs in Greek myths.

Who acts: change, night dresses · What happens: occur, change · To what, where: Greek myths

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Molly Whuppie.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, night dresses), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 change	det
2	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 occurs	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 dresses	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dresses	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct
6	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nmod
7	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 myths	case
9	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 myths	amod
10	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 occurs	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 occurs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	present	the change of night dresses			Greek myths			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in myth=Location
2	change		night dresses						nom change «event intransitive»: of=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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