The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 62
Everybody looked up, and there was the crab- fairy, who had grown as tall as the ceiling in her anger.
Who acts: Everybody, crab fairy, wind · What happens: look up, be, grow, anger · To what, where: crab fairy, anger
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, crab fairy, wind), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fairy | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 was | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fairy | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fairy | det |
| 9 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fairy | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 crab | punct |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 grown | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 grown | aux |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 tall | advmod |
| 17 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grown | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 ceiling | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ceiling | det |
| 20 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tall | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 anger | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 anger | nmod:poss |
| 23 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grown | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | Everybody | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the crab fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect | the crab fairy | wind's anger | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location | |||
| 4 | anger | wind | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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