The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 9
And with that he took his magic wand, and, murmuring a charm, he touched both brothers and brides, and immediately they were turned into grey stones.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, murmur, touch, turn · To what, where: magic wand, charm, brothers, promises, grey stones
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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 took | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 took | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wand | amod |
| 8 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 touched | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 murmuring | punct |
| 12 | murmuring | murmur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 touched | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 charm | det |
| 14 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 murmuring | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 murmuring | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touched | nsubj |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 18 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 brothers | det |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 touched | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brides | cc |
| 21 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brothers | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 turned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 turned | cc |
| 24 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 27 turned | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 turned | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 turned | aux:pass |
| 27 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 took | parataxis |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 stones | case |
| 29 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 stones | amod |
| 30 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 turned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | man's magic wand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | gerund | man not said here | a charm | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Topic | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | man | both brothers and brides | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme brother=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past · passive | promises = promise | grey stones | immediately 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 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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