The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 27

Not knowing what to do next, he walked a little distance up the bank, and there, over his head, a beautiful city was floating in the air.

Who acts: Scarcely, beautiful city · What happens: not know, do, walk, float · To what, where: little distance, head, air

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, beautiful city), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 walked	advcl
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knowing	xcomp
6	next	next	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 walked	nsubj
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 distance	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 distance	amod
12	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	15 bank	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bank	det
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 distance	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 there	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 there	cc
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 walked	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 head	punct
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 floating	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 city	det
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 city	amod
26	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 floating	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 floating	aux
28	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 walked	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 air	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 air	det
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 floating	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	Scarcely not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive	Scarcely not said here			next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	walk	past	Scarcely	a little distance	Scarcely's head	up the bank	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent distance=Theme over head=Initial_Location up bank=Trajectory
4	float	past · progressive	a beautiful city		the air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=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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