The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 79
But when she looked at Jegu and beheld his red face, squinting eyes, and untidy hair, her anger was doubled.
Who acts: Barbaik · What happens: look, behold, squint, double, anger · To what, where: red face, eyes, anger
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 beheld | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 looked | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beheld | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Jegu | case |
| 6 | Jegu | Jegu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beheld | cc |
| 8 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beheld | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 squinting | punct |
| 13 | squinting | squint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 beheld | advcl |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 squinting | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hair | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hair | cc |
| 17 | untidy | untidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hair | amod |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beheld | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 doubled | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 anger | nmod:poss |
| 21 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 doubled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 doubled | aux:pass |
| 23 | doubled | double | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beheld | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Barbaik | at Jegu | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at jegu=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | Jegu's red face | untidy hair obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | squint | gerund | eyes | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||||
| 4 | double | past · passive | Barbaik's anger | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | anger | Barbaik | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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