The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 37
As she said this she yawned tremendously, and in a moment had put on the appearance of a fearfully ugly troll.
Who acts: Queen, this · What happens: say, yawn, put · To what, where: appearance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, this), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 said | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 yawned | nsubj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 yawned | nsubj |
| 6 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | tremendously | tremendously | ADV | _ | 6 yawned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | aux |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 yawned | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 appearance | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 appearance | det |
| 17 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 troll | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 troll | det |
| 20 | fearfully | fearfully | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 troll | amod |
| 21 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 troll | amod |
| 22 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appearance | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | yawn | past | this | tremendously property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | put | past · perfect | this not said here | the appearance of a fearfully ugly troll | moment | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on appearance=Destination |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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