The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 93

And he beheld a hag, horrible to look upon, seated on a rock, and before he could speak, she struck him with her club, and changed him into a stone; and in like manner she dealt with the other three.

Who acts: man, hag · What happens: behold, look, seat, speak, strike, change · To what, where: hag, rock, man, stone, manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hag), 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	_	3 beheld	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beheld	nsubj
3	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hag	det
5	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horrible	punct
7	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hag	amod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 horrible	xcomp
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seated	punct
12	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hag	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 rock	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rock	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seated	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 speak	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 speak	cc
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 speak	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 speak	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 speak	aux
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beheld	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 struck	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 struck	nsubj
24	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 speak	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 struck	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 club	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 club	nmod:poss
28	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 struck	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 changed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 changed	cc
31	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 struck	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 changed	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 stone	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 stone	det
35	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 changed	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 dealt	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 dealt	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 manner	case
39	like	like	ADP	_	40 manner	case
40	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dealt	obl
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 dealt	nsubj
42	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beheld	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	46 three	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 three	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 three	amod
46	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 dealt	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	past	man	a hag			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hag=Stimulus
2	look	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	seat	participle		a hag not said here	a rock		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
4	speak speech: other	could	man				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	strike	past	hag	man		with hag's club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with club=Instrument
6	change	past	hag not said here	man		into a stone result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into stone=Result
7	deal	past	hag		manner	with the other three	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with three=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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