The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 128
Trembling with rage though she was, she dared not show it, and only laughed hideously.
Who acts: witch · What happens: tremble, be, show, laugh · To what, where: rage
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), 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 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 show | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 rage | case |
| 3 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trembling | obl |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 was | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Trembling | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trembling | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 show | nsubj |
| 9 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dared | advmod |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 show | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laughed | cc |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 laughed | advmod |
| 16 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | conj |
| 17 | hideously | hideously | ADV | _ | 16 laughed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | witch not said here | with rage | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | witch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | past | witch | rage | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | witch not said here | hideously property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 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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