The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 15
Abu Nowas had ceased being a dead man, and was looking into the street when he saw the coach coming.
Who acts: Abu, coach · What happens: cease, be, look, see, come · To what, where: dead man, coach
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abu, coach), 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 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ceased | nsubj |
| 2 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Abu | flat |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ceased | aux |
| 4 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 man | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ceased | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looking | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looking | aux |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ceased | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 street | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 street | det |
| 15 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looking | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coach | det |
| 20 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 coach | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past · perfect | Abu | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | Abu not said here | a dead man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | Abu not said here | into the street | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into street=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Abu | the coach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coach=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | gerund | the coach not said here | 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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