The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 14

'But where is the cheese?' he asked of the fox, who in her turn was leaning over the parapet watching his proceedings with a smile.

Who acts: cheese, fox, parapet, wolf · What happens: be, ask, lean, watch, proceed · To what, where: cheese, turn, proceedings

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheese, fox, parapet, wolf), 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	_	6 cheese	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 cheese	cc
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 cheese	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cheese	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cheese	det
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cheese	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 cheese	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 fox	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fox	det
13	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 leaning	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 leaning	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 turn	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 turn	nmod:poss
18	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaning	obl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 leaning	aux
20	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 fox	acl
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 parapet	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 parapet	det
23	parapet	parapet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaning	obl
24	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 parapet	acl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 proceedings	nmod:poss
26	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	24 watching	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 smile	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 smile	det
29	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 watching	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the cheese			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the cheese			of the fox	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of fox=Recipient
3	lean	past · progressive	the fox		her turn	over the parapet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in turn=Location
4	watch	gerund	the parapet not said here	wolf's proceedings		with a smile	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proceedings=Theme
5	proceed		wolf				nom proceedings «act intransitive»: poss=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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