The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 237
At the sight of the hideous creature he almost fell backwards.
Who acts: throat · What happens: fall, sight · To what, where: hideous creature
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 (throat), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 creature | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 creature | det |
| 6 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creature | amod |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 creature | acl:relcl |
| 11 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | throat | the hideous creature not said here | almost, backwards property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient creature=Result | |||
| 2 | sight | the hideous creature | 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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