The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 27

There was joy enough between the three sisters, till the two eldest saw their lovers turned into stone.

Who acts: joy, two eldest, lovers · What happens: be, see, turn · To what, where: stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, two eldest, lovers), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
5	between	between	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sisters	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sisters	nummod
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 saw	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eldest	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eldest	nummod
13	eldest	eldest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lovers	nmod:poss
16	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 turned	nsubj
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	ccomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 stone	case
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	joy	there	between the three sisters; enough property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between sister=Location
2	see	past	the two eldest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	turn	past	eldest's lovers	stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=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 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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