The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 30

But they must have looked guilty after all, for suddenly an old man pointed to them, and cried:

What happens: look, point, cry · To what, where: people, old man

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: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 looked	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 looked	aux
5	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cried	parataxis
6	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	xcomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 guilty	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 man	case
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 man	advmod
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	conj
15	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 man	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pointed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	must · perfect · passive	people		guilty property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	point	participle	a old man not said here	people		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
3	cry speech: express	past				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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