The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 41
And the people looked at each other, for they knew not what to believe.
Who acts: people · What happens: look, not know, believe
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 (people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 knew | advmod |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 believe | mark |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 what | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the people | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | believe | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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