The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 23
Quite close by, of course,' she added, seeing the anxious look on their faces. '
Who acts: other · What happens: add, see · To what, where: anxious look, faces
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 close | advmod |
| 2 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 course | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 close | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 added | nsubj |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 close | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeing | punct |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 added | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 look | det |
| 14 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | amod |
| 15 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 faces | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 faces | nmod:poss |
| 18 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 look | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 close | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | other | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | other not said here | the anxious look | attendants's faces | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus |
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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