The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 96

It seemed as if he could not stop himself, and the more he laughed the paler the poor girl became, murmuring to herself as she watched him:

Who acts: It, Julia, poor girl, girl · What happens: seem, not stop, laugh, become, murmur, watch · To what, where: Julia, girl

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Julia, poor girl, girl), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 stop	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stop	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stop	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stop	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stop	advmod
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 stop	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 more	det
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 laughed	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 paler	det
17	paler	pale	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 laughed	nsubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girl	det
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girl	amod
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 became	nsubj
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 paler	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 murmuring	punct
23	murmuring	murmur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 laughed	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 herself	case
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 murmuring	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 watched	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 watched	nsubj
28	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 murmuring	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 watched	obj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	seem	past	It			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	not stop a condition, not said to happen	could	Julia	Julia		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector himself=Eventuality
3	laugh	past	Julia			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	become	past	the poor girl			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	murmur speech: other	gerund	Julia not said here		girl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
6	watch	past	girl	Julia		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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