Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 84
He read on and on, and didn't once look at her.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: read, not look
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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 read | nsubj |
| 2 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 read | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 look | advmod |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 look | advmod |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 read | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | Michael | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not look | past · do-support | Michael not said here | at uproar; once property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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