The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 119

There were rows upon rows of fine beasts with their names written in gold above their stalls, and Jose was looking uncertainly from one to the other, wondering which he should choose, when an old white horse turned its head and signed to him to approach.

Who acts: rows, Jose, old white horse · What happens: be, write, look, wonder, choose, turn · To what, where: names, gold, one, head, Jose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rows, Jose, old white horse), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 rows	case
5	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rows	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 beasts	case
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beasts	amod
8	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rows	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 names	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 names	nmod:poss
11	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 beasts	nmod
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 names	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 written	obl
15	above	above	ADP	_	17 stalls	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 stalls	nmod:poss
17	stalls	stall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 written	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looking	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looking	cc
20	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 looking	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 looking	aux
22	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 were	advcl
23	uncertainly	uncertainly	ADV	_	25 one	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 looking	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wondering	punct
30	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 looking	conj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 choose	nsubj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 choose	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 choose	aux
34	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wondering	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 turned	punct
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 turned	advmod
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 horse	det
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 horse	amod
39	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 horse	amod
40	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 turned	nsubj
41	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wondering	parataxis
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 head	nmod:poss
43	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 turned	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 signed	cc
45	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 turned	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 signed	obl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 approach	mark
49	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 signed	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	rows upon rows of fine beasts with rows's names			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write	participle		rows's names not said here		gold	above rows's stalls	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gold=Destination
3	look	past · progressive	Jose	one			to the other	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute
4	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Jose not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	choose	should						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	turn	past	a old white horse	horse's head				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
7	sign	past	a old white horse not said here		Jose			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
8	approach	to-infinitive	a old white horse not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	name		rows = row					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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