The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 4

Reflected in the still pool he saw many white shapes, with long necks and golden bills, and, without thinking, he looked for the dull grey body and the awkward skinny neck.

Who acts: he · What happens: reflect, see, think, look · To what, where: pool, many white shapes

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 (he), 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	Reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 saw	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 pool	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pool	det
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 pool	advmod
5	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reflected	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shapes	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shapes	amod
10	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 necks	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 necks	case
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 necks	amod
14	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shapes	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bills	cc
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bills	amod
17	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shapes	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looked	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 thinking	mark
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 looked	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thinking	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	nsubj
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 body	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 body	det
28	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 body	amod
29	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 body	amod
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looked	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 neck	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 neck	det
33	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 neck	amod
34	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 neck	compound
35	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 body	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reflect	participle	he not said here		the pool		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	he	many white shapes and long necks and golden bills			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	gerund	he not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	he			for the dull grey body and the awkward skinny neck	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for body=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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