The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 233

Outwardly it looked beautiful, white with red cheeks, so that everyone who saw it longed to eat it, but anyone who might do so would certainly die on the spot.

Who acts: apple, everyone, anyone · What happens: look, see, long, eat, do, die · To what, where: apple, spot

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 (apple, everyone, anyone), 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	Outwardly	outwardly	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 white	punct
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beautiful	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cheeks	case
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cheeks	amod
9	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 white	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 longed	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 longed	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 everyone	mark
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 longed	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 everyone	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	obj
17	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 longed	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eat	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 die	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 die	cc
23	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 die	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 do	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 anyone	acl:relcl
27	so	so	ADV	_	26 do	advmod
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 die	aux
29	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	30 die	advmod
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 spot	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 spot	det
33	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 die	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	apple			beautiful, outwardly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past		apple			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	long	past	everyone				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	everyone not said here	apple			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	do	might					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	die	would	anyone		the spot	certainly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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