The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 45

When she saw this image she was frightened, and let her cup fall into the stream, and thought, “Is it an angel, or a peri, or a man?”

Who acts: face, image, cup · What happens: see, frighten, let, fall, think, be · To what, where: image, face, stream, angel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, image, cup), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 image	det
5	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 frightened	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	aux:pass
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 image	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	ccomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	nsubj
14	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 let	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 stream	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stream	det
17	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 angel	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 angel	punct
23	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 angel	cop
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 angel	nsubj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 angel	det
26	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thought	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 peri	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 peri	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 peri	det
30	peri	peri	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 man	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 man	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 peri	appos
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 man	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 peri	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	face	this image		tree rules
2	frighten	past · passive	this image not said here	face		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	let	infinitive		face		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	fall	present	cup		into the stream result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into stream=Result
5	think speech: other	past	face not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	cup	a angel		tree rules

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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