The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 76
The Magician stamped loudly with his feet, glared frightfully out of his green eyes, and cursed so loudly that the whole underworld shook.
Who acts: Magician, whole underworld · What happens: stamp, glare, curse, shake · To what, where: green eyes
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 (Magician, whole underworld), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Magician | det |
| 2 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stamped | nsubj |
| 3 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 stamped | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stamped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glared | punct |
| 9 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stamped | parataxis |
| 10 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 9 glared | advmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cursed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cursed | cc |
| 18 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 glared | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 loudly | advmod |
| 20 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 18 cursed | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 shook | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 underworld | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 underworld | amod |
| 24 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shook | nsubj |
| 25 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cursed | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | the Magician | with magician's feet; loudly property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glare | past | magician's green eyes | frightfully property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Location | ||||
| 3 | curse | participle | loudly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shake | past | the whole underworld | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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