The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 136
Watch them carefully while they are eating, and you will see that most of them keep their eyes on their food.
Who acts: you, men, most · What happens: watch, eat, see, keep · To what, where: men, eyes, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, men, most), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Watch | obj |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 1 Watch | advmod |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 eating | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 eating | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eating | aux |
| 7 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Watch | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Watch | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 most | nmod |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | ccomp |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 food | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 food | nmod:poss |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | men = man | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | present · progressive | men = man | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | most of men | men's eyes | men's food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on food=Location |
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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