The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 23
He gazed around, listened on all sides, and then slid down to report to the king.
Who acts: Simon · What happens: gaze around, listen, slide down, report
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon), 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 gazed | nsubj |
| 2 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 gazed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gazed | parataxis |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sides | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sides | det |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 listened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slid | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 slid | advmod |
| 12 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gazed | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 slid | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 report | mark |
| 15 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 slid | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 report | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze around | past | Simon | around property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | participle | on all sides | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme | |||||
| 3 | slide down | past | Simon not said here | then | down property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | report | to-infinitive | Simon not said here | to the king | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-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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