The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 34

And waving his wand he touched with it the chest of the youth, who became a pillar of stone.

Who acts: man, chest · What happens: wave, touch, become · To what, where: wand, chest, pillar

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, chest), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 waving	cc
2	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wand	nmod:poss
4	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waving	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touched	nsubj
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wand	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touched	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chest	det
10	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 youth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chest	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chest	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pillar	det
18	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 stone	case
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pillar	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund		man's wand		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient
2	touch	past	man	the chest of the youth	with wand	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chest=Theme with it=Instrument
3	become	past	the chest of the youth	a pillar of stone		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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 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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