The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 90
He peered about for the crab, but in vain; however, his eyes fell on the egg, which he snatched up and set on the fire.
Who acts: Monkey, eyes, egg · What happens: peer, fall, snatch up, set · To what, where: egg, fire
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey, eyes, egg), 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 peered | nsubj |
| 2 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 peered | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 crab | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crab | det |
| 6 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 peered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vain | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 vain | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vain | case |
| 10 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 peered | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 12 | however | however | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 however | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 peered | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 egg | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 egg | det |
| 19 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 snatched | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 snatched | nsubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 snatched | nsubj |
| 23 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 egg | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 snatched | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 set | cc |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 snatched | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 fire | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fire | det |
| 29 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 peered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peer | past | Monkey | for the crab; about property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Monkey's eyes | the egg | however property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on egg=Location | |||
| 3 | snatch up | past | the egg | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | set | participle | the egg not said here | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination |
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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