The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 1
Almost fainting with joy he gazed after them, and then sank back trembling on the ground.
Who acts: he · What happens: faint, gaze, sink back, tremble · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 fainting | advmod |
| 2 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gazed | advcl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fainting | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gazed | nsubj |
| 6 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gazed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sank | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 sank | advmod |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gazed | advcl |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 sank | advmod |
| 14 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sank | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trembling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | gerund | he not said here | with joy; almost property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | he | after them = they | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sink back | past | he not said here | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tremble | gerund | he not said here | the ground | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
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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