The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 9
Balancin was pleased with the young man's voice and appearance, and thought that he looked as if he knew what he was doing.
Who acts: Balancin · What happens: be, think, look, know, do · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Balancin), 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 | Balancin | Balancin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | cop |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 appearance | cc |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 looked | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 knew | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 knew | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | advcl |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 doing | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 doing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 doing | aux |
| 25 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Balancin | with the young man's voice and appearance; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Balancin not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | Balancin | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | know | past | Balancin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | past · progressive | Balancin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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