The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 68
The giants raised their eyes all at once, and were instantly turned into pillars of stone.
Who acts: giants · What happens: raise, turn · To what, where: eyes, pillars
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giants), 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 giants | det |
| 2 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 once | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 raised | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | aux:pass |
| 12 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raised | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pillars | case |
| 15 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turned | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pillars | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the giants | east's eyes | once property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | the giants not said here | pillars of stone | instantly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into pillar=Trajectory |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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