The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 39
They all turned and looked at each other first, and next at the little fish who had regained her own shape and was more beautiful than any of them.
Who acts: scales, little fish · What happens: turn, look, regain, be · To what, where: own shape
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scales, little fish), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 turned | advmod |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 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 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 looked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 next | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 next | cc |
| 12 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 fish | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fish | amod |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 next | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 regained | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 regained | aux |
| 19 | regained | regain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 fish | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shape | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shape | amod |
| 22 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 regained | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beautiful | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beautiful | cop |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | conj |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 any | case |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 beautiful | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 any | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | scales = scale | next property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | scales = scale not said here | at each; first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 3 | regain | past · perfect | the little fish | Fish's own shape | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | scales = scale not said here | than any; beautiful 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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