The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 118
Once on the top they crouched down and looked about them.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: crouch down, look · To what, where: top
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 crouched | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 top | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crouched | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 crouched | nsubj |
| 6 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 crouched | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crouched | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crouched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch down | past | Fox | the top | down, once property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location | |||
| 2 | look | past | Fox not said here | about Fox | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme |
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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