The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 159
Frisk was so terrified at the sight of it that he did not know where to hide.
Who acts: Frisk · What happens: be, not know, hide, sight · To what, where: sight
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frisk), 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 | Frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 terrified | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 terrified | advmod |
| 4 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 terrified | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 terrified | advcl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 hide | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hide | mark |
| 17 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Frisk | the sight of sight | terrified property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Frisk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | Frisk not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sight | sight | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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