The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 48
They looked at each other uneasily as she came forward with her daughter, as they knew by the cloak that this was a famous witch.
Who acts: brothers, heart, this · What happens: look, come forward, know, be · To what, where: famous witch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, heart, this), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 each | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | uneasily | uneasily | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 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 | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 daughter | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 knew | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 cloak | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cloak | det |
| 20 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 witch | mark |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 witch | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 witch | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 witch | det |
| 25 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 witch | amod |
| 26 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | brothers = brother | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come forward | past | heart | with heart's daughter; forward, uneasily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | brothers = brother | by the cloak | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | a famous witch | tree rules |
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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