The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 7
The young man stared, not knowing what he meant, and answered, wonderingly:
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: stare, not know, mean, answer
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 (young man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knowing | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knowing | advmod |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stared | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 knowing | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 meant | nsubj |
| 10 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 answered | cc |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stared | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonderingly | punct |
| 15 | wonderingly | wonderingly | ADV | _ | 13 answered | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the young man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | the young man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | mean | past | man | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | wonderingly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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