The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 68
Jack remained here for many days, doing nothing, and--as far as anybody knew--eating nothing.
Who acts: Jack, anybody · What happens: remain, do, know, eat · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, anybody), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 remained | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 remained | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 remained | advcl |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 doing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 knew | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 knew | mark |
| 16 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remained | parataxis |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 eating | punct |
| 19 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 knew | advcl |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 eating | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Jack | here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | Jack not said here | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | know | past | anybody | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | anybody not said here | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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