The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 134
On her side she seemed quite bewildered, but she looked about her with happy eyes, and was not at all afraid of her deliverer.
Who acts: Scarcely · What happens: seem, bewilder, look, not be · To what, where: side, all
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 side | nmod:poss |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 bewildered | advmod |
| 7 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 afraid | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 afraid | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 afraid | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 afraid | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 afraid | obl |
| 23 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seemed | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 deliverer | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 26 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 afraid | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Scarcely | Scarcely's side | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bewilder | participle | Scarcely not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | look | past | Scarcely | about eye; with happy eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | Scarcely not said here | all | of Scarcely's deliverer; afraid property | 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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