The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 2
Her face became purple, her eyes looked as if they would start from her head, and she positively foamed with rage.
Who acts: face, eyes · What happens: become, look, start, foam · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 start | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 start | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 start | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 start | aux |
| 13 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 looked | ccomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 start | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 foamed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 foamed | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 foamed | nsubj |
| 20 | positively | positively | ADV | _ | 21 foamed | advmod |
| 21 | foamed | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 rage | case |
| 23 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 foamed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Amina's face | purple property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Amina's eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | start a condition, not said to happen | would | eyes = eye | Amina's head | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | foam | past | face | with rage; positively property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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