The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 19
But whoever hears and repeats this will turn to stone from head to foot.”
Who acts: whoever, this · What happens: hear, repeat, turn · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whoever, this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 hears | cc |
| 2 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 repeats | cc |
| 5 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hears | conj |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | aux |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 repeats | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hears | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | whoever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | repeat | present | whoever not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | turn | future | this | head | to stone; to foot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to stone=Source from head=Trajectory to foot=Destination |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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