The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 35
After looking at him, with his head on one side, for a minute or two, he nodded gravely.
Who acts: cave · What happens: look, nod
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 looking | mark |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 nodded | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looking | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 head | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looking | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 side | nummod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 minute | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 minute | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minute | det |
| 15 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looking | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 two | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 minute | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 looking | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 nodded | nsubj |
| 20 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 20 nodded | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | cave not said here | minute | at cave; with cave's head on one side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 2 | nod | past | cave | gravely property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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