The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 85
As soon as her husband entered she looked at him with such a look of terror that the poor man was quite frightened.
Who acts: husband, village · What happens: enter, look, be · To what, where: terror
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, village), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 looked | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 entered | mark |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | advcl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 look | case |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 look | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 look | det |
| 14 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 terror | case |
| 16 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 look | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 frightened | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 frightened | cop |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 frightened | advmod |
| 23 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 terror | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | village's husband | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | village | at husband; with such look of terror; soon property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past · passive | terror | frightened property | 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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