The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 3
That was not very cheerful; and he was just going out again when his eye fell on a shelf of books.
Who acts: That, he, eye · What happens: not be, go out, fall · To what, where: shelf
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 (That, he, eye), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 cheerful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheerful | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cheerful | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 cheerful | advmod |
| 5 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 going | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 fell | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 going | compound:prt |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 fell | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eye | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheerful | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shelf | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shelf | det |
| 20 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 books | case |
| 22 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shelf | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheerful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | That | cheerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | past · progressive | he | again | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | his eye | a shelf of books | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shelf=Location |
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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