The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 20

Her head seemed to flatten, and her eyes to look oddly round the corners; her legs and her arms were stuck to her sides, and she gasped wildly for breath.

Who acts: head, eyes, legs, power · What happens: seem, flatten, look, be, gasp

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, eyes, legs, power), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 flatten	mark
5	flatten	flatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 look	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 flatten	conj
12	oddly	oddly	ADV	_	11 look	advmod
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 corners	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 corners	det
15	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 look	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 stuck	punct
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 legs	nmod:poss
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stuck	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 arms	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 arms	nmod:poss
21	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 legs	conj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stuck	cop
23	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seemed	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 sides	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sides	nmod:poss
26	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stuck	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gasped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gasped	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gasped	nsubj
30	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
31	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	30 gasped	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 breath	case
33	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gasped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seem	past	power's head		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	flatten	to-infinitive	power's head not said here		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	look	to-infinitive	power's eyes	round the corners; oddly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round corner=Theme
4	is	past	power's legs and power's arms	to power's sides; stuck property	tree rules
5	gasp	past	power	for breath; wildly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient

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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