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title: He spoke without thinking, but the flash of anger which darted from… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He spoke without thinking, but the flash of anger which darted from her eyes made him feel uncomfortable. Who acts: prisoner, flash, anger. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 66

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He spoke without thinking, but the flash of anger which darted from her eyes made him feel uncomfortable.

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**Who acts:** prisoner, flash, anger · **What happens:** speak, think, dart, make, feel, flash · **To what, where:** eyes, prisoner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, flash, anger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:3:66
# text = He spoke without thinking, but the flash of anger which darted from her eyes made him feel uncomfortable.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	darted	dart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | prisoner |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | prisoner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dart** | past | the flash of anger |  |  | flash's eyes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory |
| 4 | **make** | past | the flash of anger | prisoner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | infinitive | prisoner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | uncomfortable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **flash** |  | anger |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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