The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 17

At these words the mother thought her son had certainly gone mad, and stared blankly at him.

Who acts: mother, son · What happens: think, go, stare · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, son), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thought	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
10	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 thought	ccomp
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gone	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stared	cc
15	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	conj
16	blankly	blankly	ADV	_	15 stared	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stared	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the mother	this words		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	mother's son		certainly, mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stare	past	the mother not said here		at son; blankly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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 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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