The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 2
Hans entered, half frightened at what he was doing, and the first thing he beheld was a heap of bones.
Who acts: Hans, he, first thing · What happens: enter, frighten, do, behold, be · To what, where: first thing, heap
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, he, first thing), 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 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 4 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 entered | parataxis |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 frightened | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 doing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 doing | aux |
| 10 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heap | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heap | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heap | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beheld | nsubj |
| 17 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | acl:relcl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heap | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 heap | det |
| 20 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bones | case |
| 22 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heap | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Hans | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | half property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | behold | past | he | the first thing not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the first thing | a heap | of bones | tree rules |
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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