The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 106
The emperor, as he listened, grew red with anger.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: listen, grow · To what, where: emperor
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 listened | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 listened | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 listened | nsubj |
| 6 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 emperor | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 emperor | punct |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 anger | case |
| 11 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 red | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | emperor | the emperor not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the emperor | red property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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