The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 60
The old woman stared at him in horror as she listened to his proposal.
Who acts: old woman, woman, Hare · What happens: stare, listen, propose · To what, where: horror
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, Hare), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stared | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 horror | case |
| 8 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stared | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 listened | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 listened | nsubj |
| 11 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stared | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 proposal | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 listened | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the old woman | horror | at Hare | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 2 | listen | past | woman | to Hare's proposal | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to proposal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | propose | Hare | nom proposal «communication 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 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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