The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 50

It was the stone on which Bernez had carved the cross, and it was now a baptized stone, and had power to save him.

Who acts: stone, Bernez, power · What happens: be, carve, baptize, have, save · To what, where: stone, cross, baptized stone, power, Bernez

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone, Bernez, power), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stone	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stone	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 carved	obl
7	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 carved	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carved	aux
9	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stone	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cross	det
11	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carved	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stone	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stone	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stone	cop
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stone	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
18	baptized	baptize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 stone	amod
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carved	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carved	conj
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 save	mark
25	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 save	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	stone	the stone			tree rules
2	carve	past · perfect	Bernez	the cross	the stone		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cross=Theme on which=Destination
3	baptize	participle					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	stone	a baptized stone		now	tree rules
5	have	past	Bernez not said here	power			tree rules
6	save	to-infinitive	power not said here	Bernez			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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