The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 24

'How tiresome,' muttered Gudu, as he went back to his place; and after waiting a little longer he got up, and peeped again, but still the rabbit's pink eyes stared widely.

Who acts: tiresome, Gudu, pink eyes · What happens: mutter, go back, wait, get up, peep, stare · To what, where: Gudu

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiresome, Gudu, pink eyes), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 tiresome	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 tiresome	advmod
3	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 muttered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tiresome	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 tiresome	punct
6	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 muttered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 muttered	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 place	nmod:poss
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 got	cc
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 waiting	mark
19	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 got	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 longer	advmod
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 waiting	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 muttered	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 got	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 peeped	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 peeped	cc
28	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 got	parataxis
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 peeped	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stared	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 stared	cc
32	still	still	ADV	_	34 rabbit	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rabbit	det
34	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eyes	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 rabbit	case
36	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 eyes	amod
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 stared	nsubj
38	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 peeped	conj
39	widely	widely	ADV	_	38 stared	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 muttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	past	tiresome	Gudu			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gudu=Topic
2	go back	past	Gudu			to Gudu's place result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
3	wait	gerund	Gudu not said here			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get up	past	Gudu				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	peep	past			again		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stare	past	the rabbit's pink eyes			widely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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