The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 65

Last evening it came to visit me, and when I looked upon it its beauty faded into hideousness, its teeth became horrible fangs, its eyes glared like coals of fire, great claws sprang from its slender fingers, and were I not what I am it might have consumed me.’

Who acts: Jogi, I, beauty, teeth, eyes, great claws · What happens: come, visit, look, fade, become, glare · To what, where: me, hideousness, horrible fangs, slender fingers, I

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jogi, I, beauty, teeth), 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	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 evening	amod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 visit	mark
6	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 visit	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 faded	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 faded	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 looked	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 faded	advcl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	obl
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beauty	nmod:poss
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 faded	nsubj
17	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 hideousness	case
19	hideousness	hideousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 faded	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 teeth	nmod:poss
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
24	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fangs	amod
25	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 became	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 glared	punct
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 eyes	nmod:poss
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 glared	nsubj
29	glared	glare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 became	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 coals	case
31	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 glared	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 fire	case
33	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 coals	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 claws	punct
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 claws	amod
36	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 coals	conj
37	sprang	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 claws	acl
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 fingers	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 fingers	nmod:poss
40	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fingers	amod
41	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sprang	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 what	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 what	cc
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 what	cop
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 what	nsubj
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 what	advmod
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 came	parataxis
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 consumed	nsubj
49	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 consumed	aux
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 consumed	nsubj:pass
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 consumed	aux
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 consumed	aux
53	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 what	acl:relcl
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 consumed	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 consumed	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	47 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Jogi			evening		tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive	Jogi not said here	me				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
3	look	past	I				upon Jogi	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme
4	fade	past	Jogi's beauty		hideousness			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	become	past	Jogi's teeth	horrible fangs				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	glare	past	Jogi's eyes				like coals of fire and great claws	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	spring	gerund	great claws not said here		Jogi's slender fingers			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from finger=Trajectory
8	not is a	past	I					tree rules
9	consume	might · present · perfect · passive		I				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 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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