The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 59

In an instant a negro appeared before her, of such a huge size that the old woman was half frightened; but his voice was mild and gentle as he said: “What is it that you want?”

Who acts: negro, voice, you · What happens: appear, frighten, be, say, want · To what, where: instant, old woman, voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (negro, voice, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 negro	det
5	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 appeared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 size	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 size	case
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 size	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 size	det
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 size	amod
14	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 frightened	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 frightened	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 frightened	aux:pass
20	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 frightened	advmod
21	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 size	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 mild	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 mild	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 voice	nmod:poss
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mild	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mild	cop
27	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 appeared	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gentle	cc
29	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mild	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 said	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mild	advcl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 it	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 it	punct
35	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 it	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 it	cop
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	ccomp
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 want	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 want	nsubj
40	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 it	advcl
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 mild	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a negro		a instant	before Ali	of such huge size	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location
2	frighten	past · passive		the old woman			half property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	is	past	negro's voice				mild property	tree rules
4	be		negro's voice not said here					tree rules
5	say speech: ask	past	negro					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present		voice				tree rules
7	want in a quote	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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