More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 129
He kept still, and carefully watched for an opportunity of striking another blow.
Who acts: Johnny, opportunity · What happens: keep, watch, strike · To what, where: blow
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, opportunity), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 kept | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 watched | cc |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 7 watched | advmod |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kept | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 opportunity | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 opportunity | det |
| 10 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obl |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 striking | mark |
| 12 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 opportunity | acl |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 blow | det |
| 14 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 striking | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Johnny | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | participle | Johnny not said here | for a opportunity; carefully property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | gerund | a opportunity not said here | another blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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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