The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 125

The witch gave a howl of disgust, and hid her face in her hands; thus giving the younger sister time to fasten the cord to her waist before the ogress looked up.

Who acts: witch, ogress, disgust · What happens: give, hide, fasten, look up, howl · To what, where: howl, face, hands, cord

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, ogress, disgust), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 howl	det
5	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 disgust	case
7	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 howl	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hid	cc
10	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hid	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hid	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 giving	punct
17	thus	thus	ADV	_	18 giving	advmod
18	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gave	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
20	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 time	amod
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 time	compound
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 giving	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fasten	mark
24	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 time	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cord	det
26	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fasten	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 waist	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 waist	nmod:poss
29	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fasten	obl
30	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 looked	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ogress	det
32	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	nsubj
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fasten	advcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 looked	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the witch	a howl of disgust				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent howl=Theme
2	hide	past	the witch not said here	witch's face	witch's hands			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in hand=Location
3	give	gerund	the witch not said here			time	thus property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	fasten	to-infinitive	the witch not said here	the cord			to witch's waist	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient to waist=Co-Patient
5	look up	past	the ogress					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	howl		disgust					nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=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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