The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 28
But as he could not run away again he stood up and bowed politely.
Who acts: rest · What happens: not run away, stand up, bow
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 (rest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 run | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 run | advmod |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stood | advcl |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 run | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 run | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 stood | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bowed | cc |
| 13 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stood | conj |
| 14 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 13 bowed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run away | could | rest | again | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand up | past | rest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bow | participle | rest not said here | politely property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «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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