The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 103

And all this while his sister was pacing up and down the palace, hardly letting the knife out of her hand, and dreading what she knew she would see, and what she did see.

Who acts: this, sister · What happens: pace up, let, dread, know, see · To what, where: knife, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, sister), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 pacing	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 this	det:predet
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 pacing	nsubj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 pacing	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pacing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pacing	aux
8	pacing	pace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 pacing	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 palace	cc
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pacing	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 letting	punct
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	16 letting	advmod
16	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 pacing	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knife	det
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 letting	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 hand	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 letting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dreading	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dreading	cc
25	dreading	dread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 pacing	conj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 dreading	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 knew	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 see	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 see	cc
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 see	obj
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 see	nsubj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 see	aux
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pacing	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pacing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pace up	past · progressive	this				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	gerund	this not said here	the knife	sister's hand	hardly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	dread	gerund	this not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	know	past	sister				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	see	would	sister				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	see	past · do-support	sister				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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