The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 119
Then he drew forth the head from his wallet, and when the King’s eyes fell on it, instantly he was turned into stone, just as he stood there with his sword lifted!
Who acts: king, eyes, sword · What happens: draw, fall, turn, stand, lift · To what, where: head, king, 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 (king, eyes, sword), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 wallet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 fell | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turned | punct |
| 21 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 24 turned | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 turned | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 turned | aux:pass |
| 24 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 fell | parataxis |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 stone | case |
| 26 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stood | punct |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 stood | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 stood | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stood | nsubj |
| 31 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 turned | conj |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 stood | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 36 lifted | mark |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sword | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lifted | nsubj |
| 36 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 stood | advcl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | king | the head | then | from king's wallet; forth property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from wallet=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | fall | past | the King's eyes | Head | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=Location | ||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | king | stone | instantly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | stand | past | king | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lift | past | king's sword | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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