The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 66

He half expected that the crab would laugh in his face at this impudent proposal, but instead of doing so she only looked at him for a moment with her head on one side and then said that she would agree to the exchange.

Who acts: Monkey, crab, pilgrim · What happens: expect, laugh, do, look, say, agree · To what, where: one side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey, crab, pilgrim), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 expected	nsubj
2	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 expected	advmod
3	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 laugh	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crab	det
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 laugh	aux
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 expected	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 proposal	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 proposal	det
14	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 proposal	amod
15	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 doing	mark
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 looked	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	20 doing	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	nsubj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 looked	advmod
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 expected	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 moment	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 moment	det
29	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looked	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 moment	nmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 side	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 side	nummod
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looked	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 said	advmod
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 expected	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 agree	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 agree	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 agree	aux
42	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 said	ccomp
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 exchange	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 exchange	det
45	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 agree	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past	Monkey			half property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	would	the crab			at this impudent proposal; in Monkey's face	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme
3	do	gerund	pilgrim not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	pilgrim	one side	moment	at Monkey	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Monkey not said here		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	agree speech: agree	would	pilgrim			to the exchange	vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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