The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 49

She scowled at the young man and said, ‘With a single one of the hairs of my head I can turn you into stone.’

Who acts: woman, I · What happens: scowl, say, turn · To what, where: you, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I), 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 scowled	nsubj
2	scowled	scowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scowled	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scowled	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct
11	With	with	ADP	_	14 one	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turn	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hairs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hairs	det
17	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hairs	nmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 turn	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 turn	aux
23	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 turn	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 stone	case
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turn	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scowl	past	woman			at the young man	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn	can	I	you	stone	with a single one of the hairs of my head	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent you=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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