The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 5
Then one man, turning, beheld him, and bowed mockingly.
Who acts: one man · What happens: turn, behold, bow · To what, where: husband
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 man | nummod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turning | punct |
| 5 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 man | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 7 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beheld | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bowed | cc |
| 11 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beheld | conj |
| 12 | mockingly | mockingly | ADV | _ | 11 bowed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | one man not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | behold | past | one man | husband | then | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | bow | past | one man not said here | mockingly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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