The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 83

If the boy had seen her he would have been changed into stone by the terror and the pity of it, she was so awful; but he had thought of a plan for killing her without looking on her face.

Who acts: terror, two, boy, plan · What happens: see, change, be, think, kill, look · To what, where: boy, stone, two, pity

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 (terror, two, boy, plan), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 seen	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 changed	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 changed	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 changed	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 changed	aux:pass
11	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 seen	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 stone	case
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 changed	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 terror	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 terror	det
16	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 changed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pity	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pity	det
19	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 terror	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pity	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 awful	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 awful	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 awful	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 awful	advmod
26	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 terror	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 thought	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thought	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thought	aux
31	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 seen	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 plan	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 plan	det
34	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thought	obl
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 killing	mark
36	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 plan	acl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 killing	obj
38	without	without	SCONJ	_	39 looking	mark
39	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 thought	advcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 face	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 face	nmod:poss
42	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 looking	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect · passive		the boy		tree rules
2	change	would · perfect · passive	the terror and the pity of pity	boy	into stone result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into stone=Result
3	is	past	two		awful property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past · perfect	boy		of a plan	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	kill	gerund	a plan not said here	two		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	look	gerund	boy not said here		on two's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=Theme
7	pity			pity		nom pity «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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