The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 34
For a moment Ingiborg stood as if turned to stone, then she fetched Sigurd from his hiding-place, and, to her horror, there he was, half scorched and half withered.
Who acts: Ingiborg, giantess · What happens: stand, turn, fetch, scorch, wither · To what, where: stone, Sigurd, hiding place, Ingiborg
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ingiborg, giantess), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 4 | Ingiborg | Ingiborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 turned | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 turned | mark |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fetched | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 fetched | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fetched | nsubj |
| 14 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 15 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fetched | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hiding | punct |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fetched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 scorched | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 scorched | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 horror | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 horror | nmod:poss |
| 26 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 scorched | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 horror | punct |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 scorched | expl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 scorched | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 scorched | aux:pass |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 scorched | punct |
| 32 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 33 scorched | advmod |
| 33 | scorched | scorch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 withered | cc |
| 35 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 36 withered | advmod |
| 36 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 scorched | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Ingiborg | moment | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn a condition, not said to happen | participle | Ingiborg not said here | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fetch | past | giantess | Sigurd | Ingiborg's hiding place | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sigurd=Theme from place=Source | ||
| 4 | scorch | past · passive | Ingiborg | there | to giantess's horror; half property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | wither | participle | half property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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