The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 67
The sight gave Peter such a shock that he wrung his hands in dismay.
Who acts: sight · What happens: give, wring · To what, where: shock, Peter, hands, dismay
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 shock | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shock | det |
| 7 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wrung | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrung | nsubj |
| 10 | wrung | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wrung | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dismay | case |
| 14 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrung | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the sight | such shock | Peter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient shock=Theme | |||
| 2 | wring | past | sight | sight's hands | dismay | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in dismay=Trajectory |
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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