The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 20

In an instant his nose was as long as his chin, and in a deadly fear lest it should stretch further, he hastily swallowed a nut, and awaited the result with terror.

Who acts: nose, mind · What happens: be, stretch, swallow, await · To what, where: instant, deadly fear, nut, result

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nose, mind), 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	11 chin	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nose	nmod:poss
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chin	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chin	cop
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 chin	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 chin	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 chin	nmod:poss
11	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stretch	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stretch	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 fear	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fear	det
16	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fear	amod
17	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stretch	obl
18	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fear	nmod
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 stretch	aux
21	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 chin	conj
22	further	further	ADV	_	21 stretch	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swallowed	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 swallowed	nsubj
25	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	26 swallowed	advmod
26	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stretch	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 nut	det
28	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 swallowed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 awaited	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 awaited	cc
31	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 swallowed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 result	det
33	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 awaited	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 terror	case
35	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 result	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 chin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	mind's nose		a instant	as mind's chin; long property	tree rules
2	stretch	should	mind's nose not said here		a deadly fear lest nose	further property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	swallow	past	mind	a nut		hastily property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient
4	await	past	mind not said here	the result		with terror	tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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