The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 41
The beast was crouching under a tree when she came up, and snorted with pleasure at the sight of her.
Who acts: beast · What happens: crouch, come up, snort, sight · To what, where: tree, sight, beast
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast), 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 | 2 beast | det |
| 2 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crouching | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crouching | aux |
| 4 | crouching | crouch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crouching | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crouching | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 snorted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 snorted | cc |
| 14 | snorted | snort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crouching | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pleasure | case |
| 16 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snorted | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sight | det |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snorted | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sight | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crouching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | past · progressive | the beast | a tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | beast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | snort | participle | the sight of beast | with pleasure | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sight | beast | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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