The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 209

When she heard this she became as pale as death, because she saw at once that Snowdrop must be alive again.

Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: hear, become, see, be · To what, where: this

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNOWDROP), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 pale	advmod
8	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pale	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 saw	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 saw	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 alive	mark
18	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 alive	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 alive	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 alive	cop
21	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saw	conj
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 alive	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	SNOWDROP	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	become	past	SNOWDROP			pale property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	SNOWDROP				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	must	Snowdrop		again	alive 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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