The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 33

He was thinking these thoughts, when two young ganders caught sight of him as they were having their evening splash among the reeds, looking for their supper.

Who acts: rest, two young ganders, ganders · What happens: think, catch, have, look, sight, splash · To what, where: thoughts, sight, evening splash, rest

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, two young ganders, ganders), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 thoughts	det
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thinking	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 caught	mark
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 ganders	nummod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ganders	amod
10	ganders	gander	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 caught	nsubj
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	conj
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sight	nmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 having	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 having	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 having	aux
18	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 caught	advcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 splash	nmod:poss
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 splash	compound
21	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 having	obj
22	among	among	ADP	_	24 reeds	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 reeds	det
24	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 having	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looking	punct
26	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 having	parataxis
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 supper	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 supper	nmod:poss
29	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	rest	this thoughts		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thought=Theme
2	catch	past	two young ganders	sight of rest		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
3	have	past · progressive	ganders = gander	ganders's evening splash	among the reeds	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splash=Patient
4	look	gerund			for ganders's supper	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for supper=Theme
5	sight			rest		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	splash		ganders = gander			nom splash «event 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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