The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 20

‘Who’s there? let me go!’ cried King Kojata, but there was no answer; only an awful face looked up from the bottom of the well with two great green eyes, glowing like emeralds, and a wide mouth reaching from ear to ear showing two rows of gleaming white teeth, and the King’s beard was held, not by mortal hands, but by two claws.

Who acts: me, King, answer, awful face, wide mouth, two rows · What happens: be, let, go, cry, look up, glow · To what, where: me, wide mouth, ear, two rows, white teeth, beard

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, King, answer, awful face), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 there	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 let	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	parataxis
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
13	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 King	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	parataxis
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 answer	det
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 looked	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 face	advmod
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 face	det
23	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looked	nsubj
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	parataxis
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 looked	compound:prt
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 bottom	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bottom	det
29	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looked	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 well	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 well	det
32	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bottom	nmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 eyes	case
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 eyes	nummod
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 eyes	amod
36	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 eyes	amod
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 looked	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 glowing	punct
39	glowing	glow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 looked	advcl
40	like	like	ADP	_	41 emeralds	case
41	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 glowing	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 mouth	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 mouth	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 mouth	det
45	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 mouth	amod
46	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl
47	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 mouth	acl
48	from	from	ADP	_	49 ear	case
49	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 reaching	obl
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 ear	case
51	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 reaching	obl
52	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 reaching	advcl
53	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 rows	nummod
54	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 showing	obj
55	of	of	SCONJ	_	56 gleaming	mark
56	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 rows	acl
57	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 teeth	amod
58	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 gleaming	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 held	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 held	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 King	det
62	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 beard	nmod:poss
63	’s	's	PART	_	62 King	case
64	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 held	nsubj:pass
65	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 held	aux:pass
66	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cried	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 hands	punct
68	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	71 hands	advmod
69	by	by	ADP	_	71 hands	case
70	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 hands	amod
71	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 held	obl
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 claws	punct
73	but	but	CCONJ	_	76 claws	cc
74	by	by	ADP	_	76 claws	case
75	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	76 claws	nummod
76	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cried	obl
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				there property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	me not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	King	a wide mouth		by two claws	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by claw=Location
5	be	past	no answer		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look up	past	a awful face			with two great green eyes; from the bottom of the well	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from bottom=Theme
7	glow	gerund	a awful face not said here			like emeralds	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	reach	gerund	a wide mouth not said here		ear	to ear	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	show	gerund	a wide mouth not said here	two rows			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent row=Recipient
10	gleam	gerund	two rows not said here	white teeth			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
11	hold	past · passive	mortal hands	the King's beard			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.

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