The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 42

Then Sigurd glanced round and saw that their stepmother was following them, with an expression on her face which made her uglier than the ugliest old witch.

Who acts: Sigurd, stepmother, expression · What happens: glance, see, follow, make · To what, where: men, stepmother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, stepmother, expression), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 glanced	advmod
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 glanced	nsubj
3	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 glanced	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glanced	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 following	mark
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stepmother	nmod:poss
9	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 following	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 following	aux
11	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saw	ccomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 following	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 expression	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 expression	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 expression	det
16	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 expression	nmod
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 expression	acl:relcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	obj
23	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 made	xcomp
24	than	than	ADP	_	28 witch	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 witch	det
26	ugliest	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 witch	amod
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 witch	amod
28	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 uglier	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	glance	past	Sigurd		then	round property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	Sigurd not said here			with a expression on stepmother's face	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	follow	past · progressive	men's stepmother	men = man			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	make	past	a expression on stepmother's face	stepmother		ugly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product

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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