The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 18

The king stood staring at it, as if he were turned into stone, but the queen snatched the egg from the otter and crushed it between her two hands.

Who acts: king, queen · What happens: stand, stare, turn, snatch, crush · To what, where: otter, stone, egg

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stood	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 staring	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turned	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	aux:pass
12	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stood	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 stone	case
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 snatched	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 snatched	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 queen	det
18	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 snatched	nsubj
19	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 egg	det
21	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 snatched	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 otter	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 otter	det
24	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 snatched	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 crushed	cc
26	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 snatched	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 crushed	obj
28	between	between	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 crushed	obl
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 hands	nummod
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 crushed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the king				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stare	gerund	the king not said here			at shadow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	turn a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		otter	stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory
4	snatch	past	the queen	the egg		from the otter	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from otter=Source
5	crush	past	the queen not said here	egg		between queen; two hands obl	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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