The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 104
And when the sea beast leaped out once more its eyes fell on the head, and instantly it was turned into a stone.
Who acts: sea beast, eyes · What happens: leap out, fall, turn · To what, where: head, stone
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea beast, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:2089): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 leaped | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beast | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beast | compound |
| 5 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaped | nsubj |
| 6 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 leaped | compound:prt |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 leaped | advmod |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turned | cc |
| 18 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 21 turned | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 turned | aux:pass |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fell | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 stone | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stone | det |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap out | past | the sea beast | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | Head's eyes | the head | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location | ||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | Head | a stone | instantly property | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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