The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 25

Now these women were so awful to look on that whoever saw them was turned at once into stone.

Who acts: women, whoever · What happens: be, look, see, turn · To what, where: women, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (women, whoever), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 awful	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 women	det
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 awful	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 awful	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 awful	advmod
6	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saw	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 look	obl
11	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 awful	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turned	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 turned	aux:pass
15	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 saw	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 turned	obl
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 stone	case
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 awful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this women			now	awful property	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	whoever not said here				on that	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on that=Theme
3	see	past	whoever					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	turn	past · passive		women = woman	stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme at once=Source 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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