The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 81
He looked and shuddered, but there was no escape; so he shut his eyes to avoid seeing.
Who acts: boy, escape · What happens: look, shudder, be, shut, avoid, see · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, escape), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shuddered | cc |
| 4 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 was | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shuddered | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 escape | det |
| 10 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 shut | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shut | nsubj |
| 14 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shut | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 avoid | mark |
| 18 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shut | advcl |
| 19 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 avoid | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | boy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | shudder | past | boy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no escape | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shut | past | boy | boy's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 5 | avoid | to-infinitive | boy not said here | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | gerund | boy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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