The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 68

There was silence for a few moments, and then the lion sat up, looking very great and wise.

Who acts: silence, lion · What happens: be, sit up, look

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 (silence, lion), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 moments	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moments	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moments	amod
7	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sat	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lion	det
12	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looking	punct
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sat	advcl
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 great	advmod
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looking	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wise	cc
20	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 great	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	silence	there	moment		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit up	past	the lion		then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	the lion not said here			great property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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