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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 18

To her surprise and terror she saw him crouching in the corner, his eyes glaring with a red light, and with a loud roar he sprang towards her.

Who acts: donkey, lion, eyes · What happens: see, crouch, glare, spring, surprise · To what, where: lion, corner

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey, lion, eyes), 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

casenmod:possoblccconjnsubjobjxcompcasedetoblpunctnmod:possconjaclcasedetamodoblpunctcccasedetamodoblnsubjconjcaseoblpunctrootToADPherPRONsurpriseNOUNandCCONJterrorNOUNshePRONsawVERBhimPRONcrouchingVERBinADPtheDETcornerNOUN,PUNCThisPRONeyesNOUNglaringVERBwithADPaDETredADJlightNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwithADPaDETloudADJroarNOUNhePRONsprangVERBtowardsADPherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoADP_3 surprisecase
2herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 surprisenmod:poss
3surprisesurpriseNOUNNumber=Sing7 sawobl
4andandCCONJ_5 terrorcc
5terrorterrorNOUNNumber=Sing3 surpriseconj
6sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 sawnsubj
7sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 sawobj
9crouchingcrouchVERBVerbForm=Ger7 sawxcomp
10ininADP_12 cornercase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 cornerdet
12cornercornerNOUNNumber=Sing9 crouchingobl
13,,PUNCT_15 eyespunct
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 eyesnmod:poss
15eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur12 cornerconj
16glaringglareVERBVerbForm=Ger15 eyesacl
17withwithADP_20 lightcase
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 lightdet
19redredADJDegree=Pos20 lightamod
20lightlightNOUNNumber=Sing16 glaringobl
21,,PUNCT_28 sprangpunct
22andandCCONJ_28 sprangcc
23withwithADP_26 roarcase
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 roardet
25loudloudADJDegree=Pos26 roaramod
26roarroarNOUNNumber=Sing28 sprangobl
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 sprangnsubj
28sprangspringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 sawconj
29towardstowardsADP_30 hercase
30hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 sprangobl
31..PUNCT_7 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastdonkeylionto donkey's surprise and terrortree rules
2crouchgerundlion not said herethe corner and lion's eyesvn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location
3glaregerundlion's eyes not said herewith a red lightvn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme
4springpastlionwith a loud roar; towards donkeyvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards she=Destination
5surprisedonkeynom surprise «feeling transitive»: 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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