The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 42

The Queen looked at him and was almost as much afraid of his ugly little face as she had been of the lions before, so that she could not speak a word.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: look, be, not speak · To what, where: word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 afraid	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 afraid	cop
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 afraid	amod
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 face	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 face	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 face	amod
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 afraid	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	23 lions	case
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lions	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lions	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 lions	cop
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 lions	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lions	det
23	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 afraid	obl
24	before	before	ADV	_	23 lions	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 speak	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	31 speak	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 speak	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 speak	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 speak	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 speak	advmod
31	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 word	det
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 speak	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Queen		at man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	is	past	the Queen not said here		of man's ugly little face; afraid property	tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	queen		as the lions; before property	tree rules
4	not speak speech: other	could	queen	a word		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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