The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 120

He held the empty box in his hand, and as he looked he saw that the fresh hand of youth had grown suddenly shrivelled, like the hand of an old, old man.

Who acts: man · What happens: hold, look, see, grow, shrivell · To what, where: empty box, hand, fresh hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 box	det
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 looked	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 grown	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hand	det
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hand	amod
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grown	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 youth	case
21	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hand	nmod
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 grown	aux
23	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 saw	ccomp
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	25 shrivelled	advmod
25	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 grown	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hand	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hand	det
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grown	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	35 man	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 old	punct
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hand	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	man	the empty box	man's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Theme in hand=Location
2	look	past	man				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	grow	past · perfect · passive		the fresh hand of youth		like the hand of a old old man	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	shrivell	participle				suddenly 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 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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