The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 5
When he was out of sight the young man took the stone from his turban and looked at it. '
Who acts: he, sight · What happens: be, take, look · To what, where: sight, stone, turban
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, sight), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 sight | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sight | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sight | cop |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 turban | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 turban | nmod:poss |
| 15 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | sight | the stone | man's turban | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from turban=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | look | past | sight not said here | at sight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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