The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 77
He looked wonderingly at it, and all of a sudden it disappeared and he found a dirty looking girl standing near him.
Who acts: duck, all, dirty looking girl · What happens: look, disappear, find, stand · To what, where: dirty looking girl
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck, all, dirty looking girl), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wonderingly | wonderingly | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disappeared | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disappeared | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 disappeared | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sudden | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sudden | det |
| 11 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 all | nmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 disappeared | nsubj |
| 13 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 disappeared | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 18 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girl | amod |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 girl | amod |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 girl | acl |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 standing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | duck | at water; wonderingly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | all | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | duck | a dirty looking girl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | a dirty looking girl not said here | near duck | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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