The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 30
Looking round, he saw some pieces of the dead men’s clothes and of their bones.
Who acts: brother · What happens: look round, see · To what, where: pieces
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 pieces | det |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 clothes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 men | case |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 pieces | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bones | cc |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bones | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bones | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clothes | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | gerund | brother not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | brother | some pieces of the dead men's clothes and birds's bones | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=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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