The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 45
And as he spoke there was a swish of the water, and the face of the Doran-donn looked up at him.
Who acts: man, swish, face, water · What happens: speak, be, look up, swish · 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 (man, swish, face, water), 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 | _ | 4 spoke | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 swish | det |
| 8 | swish | swish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swish | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looked | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 face | det |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 donn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 donn | det |
| 18 | Doran | Doran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 donn | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Doran | punct |
| 20 | donn | donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 face | nmod |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 looked | compound:prt |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | past | a swish of the water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | the face of the Doran donn | at man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swish | the water | nom swish «event intransitive»: of=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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