The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 52
And looking round he beheld the black raven of the wilderness.
Who acts: voice · What happens: look round, behold · To what, where: black raven
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 looking | cc |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 beheld | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looking | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 raven | det |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 raven | amod |
| 8 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beheld | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wilderness | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wilderness | det |
| 11 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raven | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | behold | past | voice | the black raven of the wilderness | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=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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