The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 40
For a minute they looked at each other, and to his amazement he recognized the white doe which had escaped him the previous day.
Who acts: prince, thrill · What happens: look, recognize, escape, amaze · To what, where: white doe
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, thrill), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 minute | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minute | det |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 recognized | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 recognized | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 amazement | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 13 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recognized | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 recognized | nsubj |
| 15 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 doe | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 doe | amod |
| 18 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recognized | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 escaped | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 escaped | aux |
| 21 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 doe | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 escaped | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 escaped | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | prince | minute | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | |||
| 2 | recognize | past | thrill | the white doe | to thrill's amazement | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doe=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | escape | past · perfect · passive | the white doe | day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | amaze | thrill | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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