The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 97
The old man saw nothing, but Michael looked on in surprise, and Jack was so astonished that he quite forgot to eat his own supper.
Who acts: old man, Michael, Jack · What happens: see, look on, be, forget, not eat · To what, where: nothing, own supper
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 (old man, Michael, Jack), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 8 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 looked | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 surprise | case |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 astonished | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 astonished | cc |
| 15 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 astonished | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 astonished | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 astonished | advmod |
| 18 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 forgot | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 forgot | nsubj |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 forgot | advmod |
| 22 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 astonished | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 forgot | xcomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 supper | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 supper | amod |
| 27 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eat | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the old man | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look on | past | Michael | in surprise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in surprise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Jack | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not eat | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack's own supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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