The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 182
For she was really ugly enough to have frightened anybody.
Who acts: sight · What happens: be, have, frighten · To what, where: anybody
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 ugly | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ugly | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ugly | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 ugly | advmod |
| 5 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 ugly | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ugly | advcl |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 anybody | amod |
| 10 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ugly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sight | enough, ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | sight not said here | anybody | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient | ||||
| 3 | frighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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