The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 78
“At this the spectre grinned in my face and cried mockingly:
What happens: grin, cry · To what, where: spectre
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 grinned | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 spectre | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 spectre | det |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spectre | det |
| 5 | spectre | spectre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grinned | obl |
| 6 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grinned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grinned | conj |
| 12 | mockingly | mockingly | ADV | _ | 11 cried | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 grinned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin in a quote | past | this spectre | in my face | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | mockingly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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