The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 287
Imagine with what surprise and horror she felt all of a sudden that something was growing out of her forehead.
Who acts: you, surprise, something · What happens: imagine, feel, grow out · To what, where: all, forehead
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, surprise, something), 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Imagine | obl |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 horror | cc |
| 6 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surprise | conj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 felt | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sudden | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sudden | det |
| 12 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 all | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 growing | mark |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 growing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 growing | aux |
| 16 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 felt | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 forehead | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forehead | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 20 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 growing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | surprise and horror | all | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow out | past · progressive | something | surprise's forehead | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forehead=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/287/