The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 90

An owl laughed “Hoo! hoo!” almost in his face, as he peered over the edge of the gulf, and the old man threw himself back in a perspiration of horror.

Who acts: owl, Wali, old man · What happens: laugh, peer, throw back · To what, where: Hoo, face, Wali, perspiration

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl, Wali, old man), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 Hoo	punct
5	Hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 hoo	punct
7	hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hoo	appos
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 hoo	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Hoo	punct
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 face	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 face	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 peered	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 peered	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 peered	nsubj
17	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 edge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 edge	det
20	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 peered	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 gulf	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gulf	det
23	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 edge	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threw	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 threw	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	nsubj
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	parataxis
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 threw	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	29 threw	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 perspiration	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 perspiration	det
34	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 horror	case
36	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 perspiration	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	a owl	Hoo	Wali's face		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoo=Theme
2	peer	past	Wali			over the edge of the gulf	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over edge=Theme
3	throw back	past	the old man	Wali	a perspiration of horror		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in perspiration=Destination

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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