The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 98

He stood silent for a moment; then, crossing to the window out of which the prince was gazing, he took his arm and led him across the room.

Who acts: Becasigue, prince · What happens: stand, cross, gaze, take, lead · To what, where: window, arm, Becasigue, room

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 (Becasigue, prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 crossing	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 crossing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crossing	punct
10	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 window	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 window	det
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crossing	obl
14	out	out	ADP	_	20 gazing	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 gazing	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prince	det
18	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gazing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gazing	aux
20	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 crossing	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 arm	nmod:poss
25	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 led	cc
27	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 led	obj
29	across	across	ADP	_	31 room	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 room	det
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 led	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Becasigue			moment	silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cross	gerund	Becasigue not said here		the window	then		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
3	gaze	past · progressive	the prince					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of which=Theme
4	take	past	Becasigue	Becasigue's arm				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	lead	past	Becasigue not said here	Becasigue	the room			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme across room=Destination

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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