--- title: Then they turned him into a swan, but all was in vain, till at last… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then they turned him into a swan, but all was in vain, till at last he was turned into a red-hot glaive, and this she cast into a well of water and then he turned back into a mother-naked man. Who acts: arms, all, this, adder. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, all, this, adder), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:29:82 # text = Then they turned him into a swan, but all was in vain, till at last he was turned into a red-hot glaive, and this she cast into a well of water and then he turned back into a mother-naked man. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 till till ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 glaive glaive NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 back back ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 into into ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 44 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | arms *= arm* | adder | | a swan | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into swan=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | past | all | | | | | vain *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | past · passive | | adder | | a hot glaive | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into glaive=Trajectory | | 4 | **cast** | past | this | | | a well of water | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into well=Product | | 5 | **turn back** | past | adder | | | | then | into a naked man | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/29/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/29/83/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/29/)