The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 12

The woman and her daughter stared as if they had been turned into stone; but at length the stepmother gasped out:

Who acts: woman, length · What happens: stare, turn, gasp out · To what, where: caskets, stone

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, length), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stared	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 daughter	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woman	conj
6	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turned	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 turned	aux:pass
12	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stared	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 stone	case
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gasped	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 gasped	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gasped	nsubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stepmother	det
20	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 length	obj
21	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stared	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 gasped	compound:prt
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 gasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stare	past	the woman and girl's daughter			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	turn	past · perfect · passive		caskets = casket	stone	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory
3	gasp out	past	length			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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