The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 44
The newcomer was a bright, cheerful, good-looking young man, who soon plunged into conversation and asked many questions.
Who acts: newcomer, looking young man · What happens: look, be, plunge, ask · To what, where: looking young man, conversation, many questions
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 (newcomer, looking young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 newcomer | det |
| 2 | newcomer | newcomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looking | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheerful | punct |
| 7 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bright | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looking | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 man | amod |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plunged | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 plunged | nsubj |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 plunged | advmod |
| 17 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 conversation | case |
| 19 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plunged | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 plunged | conj |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 questions | amod |
| 23 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 asked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the newcomer | a looking young man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | plunge | participle | a looking young man | conversation | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | a looking young man not said here | many questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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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