The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 63
The king looked at him compassionately, and examined the signet with curiosity.
Who acts: king · What happens: look, examine · To what, where: signet
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 (king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | compassionately | compassionately | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 examined | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 examined | cc |
| 9 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 signet | det |
| 11 | signet | signet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 examined | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 curiosity | case |
| 13 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 examined | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the king | at signet; compassionately property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | examine | past | the king not said here | the signet | with curiosity | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signet=Theme |
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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