The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 85

She grinned horribly at him, and cried out, ‘With one hair of my head I can change you into stone.’

Who acts: witch, I · What happens: grin, cry out, change · To what, where: you, stone

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 (witch, 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 grinned	nsubj
2	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	2 grinned	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grinned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grinned	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 cried	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 change	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 change	punct
12	With	with	ADP	_	14 hair	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hair	nummod
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 change	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hair	nmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 change	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 change	aux
20	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 change	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 stone	case
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 change	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grinned	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 grinned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grin	past	witch			at man; horribly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry out speech: express	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	change	can	I	you	stone	with one hair of my head	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent you=Theme with hair=Co-Agent

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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