The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 85
And though Helga stood pale and trembling with surprise, she did not try to run away.
Who acts: Helga · What happens: stand, tremble, not try, run away
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stood | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 stood | mark |
| 3 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 trembling | cc |
| 7 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pale | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 surprise | case |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trembling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 try | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 try | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 try | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 try | advmod |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stood | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 run | mark |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 try | xcomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 run | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Helga | pale property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | Helga not said here | with surprise | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not try | past · do-support | Helga | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | Helga not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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