The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 66
He spoke without thinking, but the flash of anger which darted from her eyes made him feel uncomfortable.
Who acts: prisoner, flash, anger · What happens: speak, think, dart, make, feel, flash · To what, where: eyes, prisoner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, flash, anger), 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 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 thinking | mark |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spoke | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flash | det |
| 8 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 anger | case |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flash | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 darted | nsubj |
| 12 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flash | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 darted | obl |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | xcomp |
| 19 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | prisoner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | prisoner not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dart | past | the flash of anger | flash's eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the flash of anger | prisoner | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | prisoner not said here | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | flash | anger | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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