The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 68
And as the prince, struck dumb with surprise, only looked at her, the deer cleared the next wall and was soon out of sight.
Who acts: deer · What happens: strike, look, clear, be · To what, where: next wall, sight
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 struck | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 prince | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 struck | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 surprise | case |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cleared | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deer | det |
| 17 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cleared | nsubj |
| 18 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wall | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wall | amod |
| 21 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cleared | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sight | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sight | cop |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 sight | advmod |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 sight | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sight | case |
| 27 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cleared | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | as the prince; with surprise; dumb property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with surprise=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | at horse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | clear | past | the deer | the next wall | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wall=Source | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the deer not said here | sight | soon property | tree rules |
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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