The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 94
At the sight of Covan the Brown-haired they walked onwards, Covan following ever behind them, and looking neither to the right nor to the left.
Who acts: Covan, sight · What happens: walk, follow, look, sight · To what, where: Covan
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 (Covan, sight), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Covan | case |
| 5 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 haired | det |
| 7 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 haired | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Brown | punct |
| 9 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Covan | appos |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 haired | ccomp |
| 12 | onwards | onwards | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Covan | punct |
| 14 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Covan | conj |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sight | acl |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 following | advmod |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 following | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looking | cc |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sight | conj |
| 22 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 21 looking | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 right | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 right | det |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looking | obl |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 left | cc |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 left | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 left | det |
| 29 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 right | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Covan | onwards property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the sight of Covan and Covan not said here | ever | behind Covan | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind they=Location | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | to the right nor the left; neither property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sight | Covan and Covan | nom sight «cognition 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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