The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 5
He looked so ugly and cross that all his subjects feared him, and he hated the very sight of a cheerful face; so if he ever caught anyone smiling he had his head cut off that very minute.
Who acts: He, subjects, head · What happens: look, cross, fear, hate, catch, smile · To what, where: him, sight, anyone, cheerful face
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, subjects, head), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 ugly | advmod |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cross | cc |
| 6 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 feared | mark |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 subjects | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 10 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cross | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feared | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hated | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hated | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hated | nsubj |
| 16 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sight | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 sight | advmod |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hated | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 face | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 face | det |
| 22 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 face | amod |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sight | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 caught | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 caught | advmod |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 caught | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 caught | nsubj |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 caught | advmod |
| 29 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 30 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 caught | obj |
| 31 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 anyone | acl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 had | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 smiling | ccomp |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cut | nsubj |
| 36 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 had | ccomp |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 cut | compound:prt |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 minute | det |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 minute | advmod |
| 40 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cut | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | He | ugly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cross | infinitive | He not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fear | past | his subjects | him = he | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hate | past | he | the sight of a cheerful face | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | catch | past | he | anyone | ever | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | |||
| 6 | smile | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | have | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | cut off | past | his head | minute | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | sight | a cheerful face | 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 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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