The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 76

She shrank in terror, but, slight as was the noise, the thing heard it, and raised its head to listen.

Who acts: princess, thing · What happens: shrink, be, hear, raise, listen · To what, where: terror, noise, head

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, thing), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shrank	nsubj
2	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 terror	case
4	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shrank	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slight	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 slight	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slight	punct
8	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shrank	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 noise	case
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 noise	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 noise	det
12	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slight	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shrank	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 raised	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 raised	cc
20	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	conj
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 raised	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 listen	mark
24	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 raised	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shrank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shrink	past	princess		terror		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past				as the noise	tree rules
3	hear	past	the thing	noise			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	raise	past	the thing not said here	thing's head			tree rules
5	listen	to-infinitive	the thing not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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