The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 58
She found him waiting for her, and pretending to be asleep, though she clearly saw him wink one of his eyes.
Who acts: troop, jackal · What happens: find, wait, pretend, be, see, wink · To what, where: jackal, one
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 (troop, jackal), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 found | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pretending | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pretending | cc |
| 9 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 found | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 asleep | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asleep | cop |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pretending | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 saw | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 17 saw | advmod |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | wink | wink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 saw | xcomp |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 wink | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | troop | jackal | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | jackal not said here | for troop | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pretend | gerund | troop not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | troop not said here | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | past | troop | jackal | clearly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | wink | infinitive | jackal not said here | one of jackal's eyes | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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