The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 60
The king stood staring with eyes and mouth open at the place where the man had disappeared.
Who acts: king, man · What happens: stand, stare, disappear
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 staring | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mouth | cc |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | conj |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 staring | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 open | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 disappeared | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disappeared | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 disappeared | aux |
| 17 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the king | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | the king not said here | with eyes and mouth; open property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past · perfect | the man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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