The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 99

You can imagine how frightened she was, as, indeed, anybody would have been; but in an instant the man became a ring again, and then turned back to a man, and so it went on for some time until she began to get used to these sudden changes.

Who acts: You, anybody, man, ring, princess · What happens: imagine, frighten, be, become, turn back, go on · To what, where: ring, instant, man

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, anybody, man, ring), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 imagine	advcl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 as	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 as	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 as	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	5 frightened	obl:agent
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 indeed	punct
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 been	punct
13	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 been	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 been	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 been	aux
16	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 frightened	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 became	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 became	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 instant	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 instant	det
21	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 ring	det
26	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	xcomp
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 became	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turned	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 turned	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 turned	advmod
31	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 became	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 turned	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 man	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 went	cc
38	so	so	ADV	_	40 went	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 turned	conj
41	on	on	ADP	_	40 went	compound:prt
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 time	case
43	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 time	det
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
45	until	until	SCONJ	_	47 began	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 began	nsubj
47	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 went	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 get	mark
49	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 began	xcomp
50	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 get	xcomp
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 changes	case
52	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	54 changes	nsubj
53	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 changes	amod
54	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 used	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	can	You					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	frighten	participle	You not said here				indeed property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	be	would · perfect	anybody					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	the man	a ring		again	in a instant result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in instant=Result
5	turn back	past	the man not said here		a man	then		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to man=Destination
6	go on	past	ring			time		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	begin	past	princess					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	get	to-infinitive	princess not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	use	participle	princess not said here				to sudden changes	vn eat-39.1 «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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