The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 65
'Just look at this; a savage beast has been destroying our crops, and we can see the traces of his feet!'
Who acts: you, savage beast, we · What happens: look, destroy, see · To what, where: crops, traces
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 (you, savage beast, we), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 destroying | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 beast | det |
| 8 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beast | amod |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 destroying | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 destroying | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 destroying | aux |
| 12 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 look | advcl |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 crops | nmod:poss |
| 14 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 destroying | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 look | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 traces | det |
| 21 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 traces | nmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | destroy | present · perfect · progressive | a savage beast | our crops | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | can | we | the traces of mistress's feet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trace=Stimulus |
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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