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The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 97

The beast saw the sword, and shrank back, which was the best thing it could do, as now the girl’s blood was up, and the light of battle in her eyes.

Who acts: beast, sword · What happens: see, shrink back, be, do, light · To what, where: sword, best thing, battle

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, sword), 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

detnsubjdetobjpunctccconjadvmodpunctnsubjcopdetamodconjnsubjauxacl:relclpunctcaseobldetnmod:posscasensubjcopcompound:prtpunctccdetoblcasenmodcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootTheDETbeastNOUNsawVERBtheDETswordNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJshrankVERBbackADV,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXtheDETbestADJthingNOUNitPRONcouldAUXdoVERB,PUNCTasADPnowADVtheDETgirlNOUN’sPARTbloodNOUNwasAUXupADP,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETlightNOUNofADPbattleNOUNinADPherPRONeyesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 beastdet
2beastbeastNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 sworddet
5swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawobj
6,,PUNCT_8 shrankpunct
7andandCCONJ_8 shrankcc
8shrankshrinkVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 sawconj
9backbackADV_8 shrankadvmod
10,,PUNCT_15 thingpunct
11whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel15 thingnsubj
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 thingcop
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 thingdet
14bestgoodADJDegree=Sup15 thingamod
15thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing8 shrankconj
16ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 donsubj
17couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin18 doaux
18dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf15 thingacl:relcl
19,,PUNCT_27 uppunct
20asasADP_21 nowcase
21nownowADVPronType=Dem27 upobl
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 girldet
23girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing25 bloodnmod:poss
24’s'sPART_23 girlcase
25bloodbloodNOUNNumber=Sing27 upnsubj
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 upcop
27upupADP_8 shrankcompound:prt
28,,PUNCT_31 lightpunct
29andandCCONJ_31 lightcc
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 lightdet
31lightlightNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawobl
32ofofADP_33 battlecase
33battlebattleNOUNNumber=Sing31 lightnmod
34ininADP_36 eyescase
35herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 eyesnmod:poss
36eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur33 battlenmod
37..PUNCT_3 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastthe beastthe swordthe light of battle in bade's eyes oblvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus
2shrink backpastthe beast not said herevn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3is apastthe best thingtree rules
4docouldswordthe best thing not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5lightbattle in bade's eyesnom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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