The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 27
“Look at her once more,” said the holy man, and as they drew near the cradle there lay the baby smiling up at them.
Who acts: holy man, veins, baby · What happens: look, say, draw, lie, smile up · To what, where: baby, cradle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holy man, veins, baby), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Look | obl |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 Look | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 drew | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drew | nsubj |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 cradle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cradle | det |
| 20 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 lay | advmod |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drew | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 baby | det |
| 24 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obj |
| 25 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 baby | acl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 smiling | compound:prt |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 smiling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | at look | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the holy man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | veins = vein | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lie | past | veins = vein not said here | the baby | the cradle; there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baby=Theme | |||
| 5 | smile up | gerund | the baby not said here | at veins = vein | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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