The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 33
The youth bowed low, and then gazed in surprise at the crowd of little black creatures who were running about the floor, and even on the table itself.
Who acts: youth, little black creatures · What happens: bow, gaze, run · To what, where: table
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (youth, little black creatures), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bowed | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gazed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gazed | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 gazed | advmod |
| 8 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 surprise | case |
| 10 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gazed | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 crowd | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crowd | det |
| 13 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gazed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 creatures | case |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creatures | amod |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creatures | amod |
| 17 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crowd | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 running | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 running | aux |
| 20 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 floor | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 floor | det |
| 23 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 running | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 table | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 table | cc |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 table | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 table | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 table | det |
| 29 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obl |
| 30 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 29 table | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the youth | the table table | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location | |||
| 2 | gaze | past | the youth not said here | then | at the crowd of little black creatures; in surprise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in surprise=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | past · progressive | little black creatures | about the floor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about floor=Trajectory |
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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