The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 55

The sparrow hopped about as usual, twittering happily, and thinking no evil, and all the while the woman’s brow became blacker and blacker, and at length her fury broke out.

Who acts: sparrow, brow, length · What happens: hop about, twitter, think, become, break out, infuriate · To what, where: evil

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow, brow, length), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hopped	nsubj
3	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 hopped	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 usual	case
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hopped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 twittering	punct
8	twittering	twitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hopped	advcl
9	happily	happily	ADV	_	8 twittering	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thinking	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thinking	cc
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 twittering	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 evil	det
14	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thinking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 became	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 became	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 became	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 became	det
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 became	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brow	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 woman	case
23	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hopped	conj
25	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 became	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 blacker	cc
27	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 blacker	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 broke	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 broke	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 length	case
31	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 broke	nsubj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fury	nmod:poss
33	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 length	obj
34	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 became	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 broke	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hop about	past	the sparrow		as usual; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	twitter	gerund	the sparrow not said here		happily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	the sparrow not said here	no evil		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot evil=Theme
4	become	past	the woman's brow		black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	break out	past	length			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	infuriate		brow			nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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