The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 21
The poor little fellow drooped his head, and did not know where to look, but was comforted when his mother answered:
Who acts: poor little fellow, mother · What happens: droop, not know, look, comfort, answer · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little fellow, mother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fellow | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 4 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drooped | nsubj |
| 5 | drooped | droop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drooped | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 drooped | conj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 look | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 comforted | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 comforted | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 comforted | aux:pass |
| 19 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 drooped | parataxis |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 answered | advmod |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 answered | nsubj |
| 23 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 comforted | parataxis |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 drooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | droop | past | the poor little fellow | rest's head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | the poor little fellow not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | comfort | past · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | rest's mother | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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