The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 8

'Look! he's beckoning the rest of you to come; he's got a fine buffalo!'

Who acts: you, goldsmith · What happens: look, beckon, come, get · To what, where: rest, fine buffalo

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 (you, goldsmith), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beckoning	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 beckoning	aux
6	beckoning	beckon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Look	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beckoning	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 come	mark
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rest	acl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 got	aux
16	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Look	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 buffalo	det
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 buffalo	amod
19	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	beckon	present · progressive	goldsmith	the rest	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
3	come	to-infinitive	you	the rest not said here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	present · passive	goldsmith	a fine buffalo	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buffalo=Stimulus

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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