The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 46
Fear and trembling took hold of her, and she screamed as women scream.
Who acts: Fear, face, women · What happens: tremble, take, scream, hold · To what, where: hold, face
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 (Fear, face, women), 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 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 trembling | cc |
| 3 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Fear | conj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hold | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 screamed | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 screamed | nsubj |
| 11 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 scream | mark |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 scream | nsubj |
| 14 | scream | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 screamed | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | Fear not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Fear | hold of face | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | past | face | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scream speech: express | present | women | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hold | face | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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