The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 32
He stood a long time gazing at it, admiring the rich material and the splendid embroidery in it.
Who acts: Labakan, long time · What happens: stand, gaze, admire · To what, where: rich material
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, long time), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obj |
| 6 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 time | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gazing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 admiring | punct |
| 10 | admiring | admire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stood | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 material | det |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 material | amod |
| 13 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 admiring | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 embroidery | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 embroidery | det |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 embroidery | amod |
| 17 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 material | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 embroidery | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Labakan | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | a long time not said here | at robe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | admire | gerund | Labakan not said here | the rich material and the splendid embroidery in robe | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer material=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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