The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 129
Not a creature was to be seen, and suddenly Martin--he did not know why--felt a little frightened.
Who acts: Martin · What happens: see, not know, feel · To what, where: creature
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 creature | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 creature | det |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Martin | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Martin | cc |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 Martin | advmod |
| 11 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | conj |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 know | advmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 felt | punct |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 little | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 frightened | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 felt | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | a creature | Martin obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Martin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | Martin not said here | frightened 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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