The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 68

Thereupon, oh dear! oh dear! he draws back, crying and shaking his jaw as if he had swallowed red-hot coals.

Who acts: mouthful · What happens: draw back, cry, shake, swallow · To what, where: jaw, mouthful

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouthful), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	4 dear	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thereupon	punct
3	oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
6	oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 dear	discourse
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dear	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 draws	nsubj
10	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dear	parataxis
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 draws	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crying	punct
13	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 draws	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shaking	cc
15	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 crying	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 jaw	nmod:poss
17	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shaking	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 swallowed	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 swallowed	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 swallowed	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swallowed	aux
22	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 shaking	advcl
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hot	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 red	punct
25	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 coals	amod
26	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 swallowed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	draw back	present	mouthful		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	gerund	mouthful not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shake	gerund	mouthful not said here	mouthful's jaw	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient
4	swallow	past · perfect · passive		mouthful	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 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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