The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 98

‘Become in body what you are in soul!’ cried she, and in an instant the lovely fairy of the sea was a toad, horrible to look upon.

Who acts: you, lovely fairy · What happens: become, be, cry, look · To what, where: body, soul, Groac’h, toad, instant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lovely fairy), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Become	punct
2	Become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	parataxis
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 body	case
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Become	obl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 body	conj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 soul	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 soul	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 soul	case
9	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	acl:relcl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Become	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Become	punct
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 toad	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 toad	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 instant	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 instant	det
18	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 toad	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fairy	det
20	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fairy	amod
21	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 toad	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fairy	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 toad	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 toad	det
27	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 horrible	punct
29	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 toad	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 look	mark
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 horrible	xcomp
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 look	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	infinitive				in body result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in body=Result
2	is	present	you		soul		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past		Groac’h = groac'h			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4	is a	past	the lovely fairy of the sea	a toad	a instant		tree rules
5	be		the lovely fairy of the sea not said here				tree rules
6	look	to-infinitive	the lovely fairy of the sea not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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