More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 124
Thus watching he formed his plan of action.
Who acts: Johnny · What happens: watch, form, plan · To what, where: plan, action
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johnny), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 watching | advmod |
| 2 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 formed | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 formed | nsubj |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 plan | nmod:poss |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 action | case |
| 8 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plan | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | Johnny not said here | thus property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | form | past | Johnny | Johnny's plan of action | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | plan | Johnny | action | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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: «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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