More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 96
But who can have left it here?" and she looked round about, as if the person it belonged to must be not far off.
Who acts: woman, pot · What happens: leave, look round, belong, not be · To what, where: pot, person
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, pot), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 left | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | aux |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 left | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 person | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 person | case |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 person | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 belonged | nsubj |
| 21 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 person | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 off | mark |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 off | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 off | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 off | advmod |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 off | advmod |
| 27 | off | off | ADV | _ | 21 belonged | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | can · perfect · passive | pot | here | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | look round in a quote | past | woman | about, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | past | pot | the person not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | must | pot not said here | far, off property | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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