The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 30

To her surprise, three little doves were sitting on the handle, all of them looking very sad.

Who acts: three little doves, all, mother · What happens: sit, look, surprise · To what, where: handle

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three little doves, all, mother), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 surprise	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 surprise	nmod:poss
3	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 surprise	punct
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 doves	nummod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 doves	amod
7	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sitting	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 handle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 handle	det
12	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 looking	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 all	nmod
17	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sitting	conj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 sad	advmod
19	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looking	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	three little doves	the handle	to mother's surprise	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on handle=Location
2	look	gerund	all		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	surprise		mother			nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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 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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