The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 86
In the evening, when she ventured to peep, she thought she saw a tiny crack in the upper part of the shell.
Who acts: duck · What happens: venture, peep, think, see · To what, where: tiny crack, upper part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ventured | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 ventured | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ventured | nsubj |
| 7 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 peep | mark |
| 9 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ventured | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ventured | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crack | det |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crack | amod |
| 17 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 part | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 part | det |
| 20 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 part | amod |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 shell | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shell | det |
| 24 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 part | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ventured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | past | duck | evening | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | peep | to-infinitive | duck not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | duck | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | duck | a tiny crack | the upper part of the shell | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus |
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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