More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 99
Looking round, young Lambton saw a strange old man standing by him.
Who acts: young Lambton, strange old man · What happens: look round, see, stand · To what, where: strange old man
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Lambton, strange old man), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | advcl |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Lambton | amod |
| 5 | Lambton | Lambton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 man | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 standing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | gerund | young Lambton not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | young Lambton | a strange old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a strange old man not said here | by Lambton | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |
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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