The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 88

It shrank away into a corner and gazed at him from there, and, in spite of being so famished, did not dare to touch him, but sucked its own paws from sheer hunger.

Who acts: bear, spite · What happens: shrink away, gaze, famish, not dare, not touch, suck · To what, where: corner, spite, shepherd, own paws, sheer hunger

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, spite), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shrank	nsubj
2	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 shrank	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 corner	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 corner	det
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shrank	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gazed	cc
8	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shrank	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gazed	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 there	case
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 gazed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dare	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dare	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spite	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 spite	case
17	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dare	nsubj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 famished	mark
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 famished	aux:pass
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 famished	advmod
21	famished	famish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 spite	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spite	punct
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dare	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dare	advmod
25	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gazed	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 touch	mark
27	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dare	xcomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 touch	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sucked	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 sucked	cc
31	sucked	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shrank	conj
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 paws	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 paws	amod
34	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sucked	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 hunger	case
36	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hunger	amod
37	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sucked	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shrank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shrink away	past	bear			into a corner result; away property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into corner=Result
2	gaze	past	bear not said here			at shepherd	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3	famish	gerund · passive		spite not said here			tree rules
4	not dare	past · do-support	spite				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not touch	to-infinitive	spite not said here	shepherd			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
6	suck	past	bear not said here	bear's own paws	sheer hunger		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Theme from hunger=Source

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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