The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 81
But just as he was about to plunge his nose in he saw two brown eyes calmly looking at him.
Who acts: jackal, two brown eyes · What happens: be, plunge, see, look · To what, where: nose, two brown eyes
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 (jackal, two brown eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 about | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 about | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 about | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 about | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 plunge | mark |
| 8 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 about | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plunge | obj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 saw | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 plunge | advcl |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 eyes | nummod |
| 15 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 16 eyes | advmod |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | jackal | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plunge | to-infinitive | jackal not said here | jackal's nose | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | jackal | two brown eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | two brown eyes not said here | at jackal | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
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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