--- title: If the boy had seen her he would have been changed into stone by the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If the boy had seen her he would have been changed into stone by the terror and the pity of it, she was so awful; but he had thought of a plan for killing her without looking on her face. Who acts: terror, two, boy, plan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror, two, boy, plan), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:27:83 # text = If the boy had seen her he would have been changed into stone by the terror and the pity of it, she was so awful; but he had thought of a plan for killing her without looking on her face. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 killing kill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 without without SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past · perfect · passive | | the boy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **change** | would · perfect · passive | the terror and the pity of pity | boy | | | | into stone *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into stone=Result | | 3 | **is** | past | two | | | | | awful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | boy | | | | | of a plan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **kill** | gerund | a plan *not said here* | two | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **look** | gerund | boy *not said here* | | | | | on two's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=Theme | | 7 | **pity** | | | pity | | | | | nom pity «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/84/) - ↑ back to [The Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/)