Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 167
As for your wife there, the power that changed your body changed her mind.
Who acts: power · What happens: change, mind · To what, where: body, mind
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 wife | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wife | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 power | det |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 power | acl:relcl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obj |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the power | your body | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 2 | change | past | the power | power's mind | as your wife | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 3 | mind | power | nom mind «cognition 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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