The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 26
Then the claws relaxed their hold, and the face disappeared in the depths.
Who acts: claws, face · What happens: relax, disappear, hold · To what, where: hold, depths
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 (claws, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 relaxed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 claws | det |
| 3 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 relaxed | nsubj |
| 4 | relaxed | relax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hold | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 relaxed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 disappeared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 disappeared | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 relaxed | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 depths | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 depths | det |
| 14 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 disappeared | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 relaxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relax | past | the claws | claws's hold | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hold=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | disappear | past | the face | the depths | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | claws = claw | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=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 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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