The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 73

The hermit followed at their heels, but seeing it was impossible to overtake the thief, he fell on his knees and called his most deadly curse down on her head, praying that if the thief was a man, he might become a woman; and if she was a woman, that she might become a man.

Who acts: hermit, thief, man, princess · What happens: follow, see, be, overtake, fall, call · To what, where: heels, thief, knees, deadly curse, head, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, thief, man, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hermit	det
2	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 heels	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heels	nmod:poss
6	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 followed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
9	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 fell	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 impossible	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 impossible	cop
12	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seeing	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 overtake	mark
14	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 impossible	csubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thief	det
16	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 overtake	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seeing	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 knees	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 knees	nmod:poss
22	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fell	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 called	cc
24	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 curse	nmod:poss
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 deadly	advmod
27	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 curse	amod
28	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
29	down	down	ADV	_	24 called	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 praying	punct
34	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 called	advcl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 become	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 man	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 thief	det
38	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 man	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 man	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 man	det
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 become	nsubj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 man	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 become	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 become	aux
45	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 praying	advcl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 woman	det
47	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 become	xcomp
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 woman	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 woman	cc
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	54 woman	mark
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 woman	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 woman	cop
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 woman	det
54	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 become	punct
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 become	mark
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 become	nsubj
58	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 become	aux
59	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 followed	advcl
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 man	det
61	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 become	xcomp
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the hermit		shrieks's heels		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at heel=Location
2	see	gerund	hermit not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past				impossible property	tree rules
4	overtake	to-infinitive		the thief			tree rules
5	fall	past	hermit		hermit's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
6	call	past	hermit not said here	hermit's deadly curse	princess's head	down property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	pray	gerund	hermit not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the thief	a man			tree rules
9	become	might	a man	a woman			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
10	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	princess	a woman			tree rules
11	become	might	princess	a man			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
12	curse		hermit				nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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