The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 92

Every time he opened his mouth for the purpose she looked at him sternly, as if to say, ‘Silence,’ so he could only let his eyes speak for him.

Who acts: plenty, mouth, eyes · What happens: open, look, say, let, speak · To what, where: mouth, Silence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (plenty, mouth, eyes), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 time	acl:relcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouth	nmod:poss
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 purpose	det
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	obl
14	sternly	sternly	ADV	_	11 looked	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 say	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 say	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 looked	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Silence	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Silence	punct
22	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Silence	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 Silence	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	29 let	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 let	aux
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 let	advmod
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 say	parataxis
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 speak	nsubj
32	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 let	ccomp
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 speak	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	plenty	plenty's mouth		for the purpose	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2	look	past	mouth		time	at plenty; sternly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	to-infinitive	mouth not said here	Silence			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent silence=Topic
4	let	could	plenty				tree rules
5	speak speech: other	present	plenty's eyes			for plenty	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 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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