The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 19

After looking at her he said, in a tone that might have struck terror into the boldest heart, though he did not seem to be angry:

Who acts: terror · What happens: look, say, strike, not seem, be · To what, where: tone, boldest heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 looking	mark
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looking	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tone	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tone	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tone	det
10	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 struck	nsubj:pass
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 struck	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 struck	aux
14	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tone	acl:relcl
15	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 struck	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 heart	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heart	det
18	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 heart	amod
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 struck	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seem	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 seem	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seem	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seem	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 seem	advmod
25	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 angry	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 angry	cop
28	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seem	xcomp
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	terror not said here			at Beast	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	terror		a tone		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner
3	strike	might · perfect · passive		a tone	the boldest heart		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient terror=Result
4	not seem	past · do-support	terror				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	terror not said here			angry property	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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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