The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 81
At the first glimpse of Patto's head in the well he laughed loudly, crying:
Who acts: Patto · What happens: laugh, cry, glimpse · To what, where: first glimpse, head
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patto), 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 | _ | 4 glimpse | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 glimpse | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 glimpse | amod |
| 4 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 6 | Patto | Patto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Patto | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glimpse | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laughed | nsubj |
| 13 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 13 laughed | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crying | punct |
| 16 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 laughed | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Patto | the first glimpse of Patto's head in the well | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Patto not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | glimpse | Patto's head in the well | nom glimpse «act 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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