The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 84
“What are you standing there gaping for?” screamed the dwarf, and his ashen-gray face became scarlet with rage.
Who acts: you, dwarf, gray face · What happens: stand, gape, scream, become · To what, where: scarlet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dwarf, gray face), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 standing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 standing | nsubj |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 screamed | ccomp |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 standing | advmod |
| 7 | gaping | gape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 standing | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 gaping | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
| 11 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dwarf | det |
| 13 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 screamed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ashen | ashen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gray | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ashen | punct |
| 19 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 face | amod |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | nsubj |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 screamed | conj |
| 22 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 rage | case |
| 24 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scarlet | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | present · progressive | you | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | gape in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | past | the dwarf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | become | past | man's gray face | scarlet with rage | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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