The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 48

She wept as she told how the others were turned to stone, and how she was kept as the old man’s bride.

Who acts: friend · What happens: weep, tell, turn, keep · To what, where: others, stone, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	advcl
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 turned	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux:pass
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 stone	case
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 kept	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kept	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kept	aux:pass
18	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wept	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	24 bride	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bride	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 man	case
24	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	friend				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	friend				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn	past · passive		the others	stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory
4	keep	past · passive		friend		as the old man's bride	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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