The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 26
The girl paused for a moment as she came up, and gazed about for a place where she might safely cross.
Who acts: girl, woman · What happens: pause, come up, gaze, cross
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, woman), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paused | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gazed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gazed | cc |
| 13 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 gazed | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gazed | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 cross | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cross | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 cross | aux |
| 21 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 22 cross | advmod |
| 22 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the girl | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gaze | past | the girl not said here | for a place; about property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cross | might | woman | safely property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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