The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 15

Give horrible shrieks as if he were in pain?

Who acts: you, sight · What happens: give, be · To what, where: horrible shrieks

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sight), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shrieks	amod
3	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
4	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 pain	case
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 as	fixed
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pain	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pain	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 pain	case
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	horrible shrieks					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme
2	is	past	sight					as pain	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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