Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 83
She hissed, like seething pitch, and her eyes glared at him like coals of fire, but it was of no use.
Who acts: uproar, eyes, pitch · What happens: hiss, seethe, glare, be · To what, where: pitch
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uproar, eyes, pitch), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hissed | nsubj |
| 2 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seething | punct |
| 4 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 5 seething | mark |
| 5 | seething | seethe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hissed | advcl |
| 6 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seething | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 glared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glared | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glared | nsubj |
| 11 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hissed | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 glared | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 coals | case |
| 15 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glared | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fire | case |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coals | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 use | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 use | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 use | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 use | cop |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 use | case |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 use | det |
| 24 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glared | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hiss | past | uproar | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seethe | gerund | uproar not said here | pitch | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location pitch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glare | past | uproar's eyes | at Michael; like coals of fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | pitch | of no use | tree rules |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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