The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 230
When she heard these words she literally trembled and shook with rage.
Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: hear, tremble, shake · To what, where: words
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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trembled | nsubj |
| 7 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 8 trembled | advmod |
| 8 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trembled | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 rage | case |
| 12 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | SNOWDROP | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tremble | past | SNOWDROP | this words not said here | literally property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme | |||
| 3 | shake | past | SNOWDROP not said here | with rage | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with rage=Co-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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