The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 46

In an instant all his foes seemed turned to stone, and where each man was there he stayed.

Who acts: man, Virgilius · What happens: turn, be, stay · To what, where: foes, stone

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Virgilius), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 foes	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foes	nmod:poss
6	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turned	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux:pass
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 stone	case
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 there	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 there	cc
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 there	advmod
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 there	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 there	cop
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 turned	xcomp
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stayed	nsubj
19	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 there	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		Virgilius's foes	stone	in a instant	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in instant=Topic to stone=Recipient
2	is	past	each man			there property	tree rules
3	stay	past	Virgilius				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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