The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 100

I stood watching them as if I was turned to stone, but there kept ringing in my ears the sound of the bells on the ram which led them.”

Who acts: I, ram · What happens: stand, watch, turn, keep, ring, lead · To what, where: sheep, I, stone, sound, ears

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ram), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 watching	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 turned	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 turned	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	aux:pass
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 stone	case
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 kept	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 kept	expl
15	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	parataxis
16	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 kept	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 ears	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ears	nmod:poss
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ringing	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sound	det
21	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ringing	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bells	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bells	det
24	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sound	nmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ram	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ram	det
27	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ringing	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 led	nsubj
29	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ram	acl:relcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 led	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	watch	gerund	I not said here	sheep			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	turn	past · passive		I	stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory
4	keep	participle			there		tree rules
5	ring	gerund		the sound of the bells	my ears	on the ram	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme
6	lead	past	the ram	sheep			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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