The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 73
I shook like an aspen leaf at the sight, and my spirit quaked for fear.
Who acts: I · What happens: shook, quake · To what, where: sight, spirit
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | shook | shook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 leaf | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 leaf | det |
| 5 | aspen | aspen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaf | compound |
| 6 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sight | det |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spirit | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spirit | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | parataxis |
| 14 | quaked | quake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 spirit | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 fear | case |
| 16 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quaked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shook | present | I | the sight | like a aspen leaf | tree rules | |||
| 2 | quake | participle | my spirit not said here | for fear | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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