The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 69
He stood and gazed in terror, and at this moment Eisenkopf came by.
Who acts: sight · What happens: stand, gaze, come by
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gazed | cc |
| 4 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 12 | Eisenkopf | Eisenkopf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 moment | appos |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | sight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gaze | past | sight not said here | in terror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in terror=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come by | past | sight not said here | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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