The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 88
The little wild creatures peeped at him from beneath the bushes, and he nodded and smiled, and wished them 'Good-morning.'
Who acts: little wild creatures, couple · What happens: peep, nod, smile, wish · To what, where: bushes, creatures
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little wild creatures, couple), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 creatures | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creatures | amod |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creatures | amod |
| 4 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 peeped | nsubj |
| 5 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 peeped | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 bushes | case |
| 9 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 11 bushes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bushes | det |
| 11 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 peeped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nodded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nodded | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nodded | nsubj |
| 15 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 peeped | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 smiled | cc |
| 17 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nodded | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wished | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wished | cc |
| 20 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 peeped | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wished | obj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Good | punct |
| 23 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 morning | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Good | punct |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wished | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 peeped | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | past | the little wild creatures | the bushes | at couple | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 2 | nod | past | couple | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | smile | past | couple not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wish | past | the little wild creatures not said here | creatures = creature | morning | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/88/