The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 21

The cook was still trembling with the thought of what he had escaped, but to his surprise Paperarello did not seem disturbed at all, and when night came he went to sleep as usual.

Who acts: cook, night · What happens: tremble, escape, not seem, disturb, come, go · To what, where: all

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, night), 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 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trembling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trembling	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 trembling	advmod
5	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 thought	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thought	det
8	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trembling	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 thought	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 escaped	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 escaped	aux
13	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 what	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seem	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 seem	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 surprise	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 surprise	nmod:poss
18	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seem	obl
19	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 surprise	appos
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seem	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 seem	advmod
22	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trembling	conj
23	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 seem	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 disturbed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 came	advmod
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trembling	parataxis
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 sleep	mark
34	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 went	xcomp
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 usual	case
36	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sleep	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trembling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past · progressive	the cook		still	with the thought	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	escape	past · perfect	cook				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not seem	past · do-support	the cook not said here			to cook's surprise	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	disturb	participle	the cook not said here	all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past	cook				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	sleep	to-infinitive	cook not said here			as usual	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	surprise		cook				nom surprise «feeling 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 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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