The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 39

Then he stopped, turned solemnly to his companion, and, with a movement of his hand, drew aside as it were a heavy curtain, and revealed--what?

Who acts: fakeer, movement · What happens: stop, turn, draw, be, reveal, move · To what, where: companion, heavy curtain, hand

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fakeer, movement), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stopped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
6	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 companion	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 companion	nmod:poss
9	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drew	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 movement	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 movement	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 movement	det
15	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drew	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 movement	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 movement	punct
20	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
21	aside	aside	ADV	_	20 drew	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 curtain	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 curtain	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 curtain	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 curtain	det
26	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 curtain	amod
27	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drew	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 revealed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 revealed	cc
30	revealed	reveal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stopped	conj
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 revealed	punct
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 stopped	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	fakeer			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector what=Eventuality
2	turn	past	fakeer not said here		fakeer's companion		solemnly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to companion=Trajectory
3	draw	past	a movement of fakeer's hand				aside property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	movement	a heavy curtain				tree rules
5	reveal	participle	fakeer not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	move			fakeer's hand				nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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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