The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 14

When they heard the voice coming from the coffin the other people suddenly stopped laughing, and stood as if they had been turned into stone.

Who acts: sides, voice, other people · What happens: hear, come, stop, laugh, stand, turn · To what, where: voice, coffin, sides, stone

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (sides, voice, other people), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stood	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voice	det
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 voice	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 coffin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coffin	det
9	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stopped	nsubj
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 stopped	advmod
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 coffin	acl:relcl
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 stopped	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stood	cc
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 turned	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 turned	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 turned	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 turned	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 turned	aux:pass
24	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 stood	advcl
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 stone	case
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	sides = side	the voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	the voice not said here		the coffin		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from coffin=Initial_Location
3	stop	past	the other people	the coffin not said here		suddenly property	tree rules
4	laugh	gerund	the other people not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn	past · perfect · passive		sides = side	stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=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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