---
title: The change of night-dresses occurs in Greek myths. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The change of night-dresses occurs in Greek myths. Who acts: change, night dresses. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Molly Whuppie., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [XXII. Molly Whuppie.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/) / 7

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The change of night-dresses occurs in Greek myths.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** change, night dresses · **What happens:** occur, change · **To what, where:** Greek myths

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7439:72:7
# text = The change of night-dresses occurs in Greek myths.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/8/)
- ↑ back to [XXII. Molly Whuppie.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/)