The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 19
Peter had looked about him for a wife early in life, but unluckily his choice fell upon a woman whose evil tongue was well known in the town.
Who acts: choice · What happens: look, fall, know · To what, where: Peter, evil tongue, town
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choice), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | aux |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 9 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 life | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 14 | unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 17 fell | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 choice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 22 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tongue | amod |
| 23 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 known | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 known | aux:pass |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 known | advmod |
| 26 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 woman | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 town | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 town | det |
| 29 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 known | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · passive | Peter | about Father; for a wife in life | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Peter's choice | upon a woman; unluckily property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon woman=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | past · passive | evil tongue | the town | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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