The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 97
The face of the woman grew grayer, grimmer as she listened, and in her eyes was a look of puzzled apprehension.
Who acts: face · What happens: grow, listen, be · To what, where: look, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 face | det |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 woman | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 face | nmod |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | grayer | gray | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grimmer | punct |
| 9 | grimmer | grim | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 grayer | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 listened | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 listened | nsubj |
| 12 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 look | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 look | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 look | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 look | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 look | det |
| 20 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 apprehension | case |
| 22 | puzzled | puzzled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 apprehension | amod |
| 23 | apprehension | apprehension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the face of the woman | gray property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the face of the woman not said here | a look | Woman's eyes | of puzzled apprehension | tree rules |
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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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