The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 45
When all had been quiet for a long time, and there were only stars to see him, he crept out and looked about him.
Who acts: all, stars, dog · What happens: be, see, creep out, look · To what, where: dog
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 (all, stars, dog), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 quiet | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 quiet | cop |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quiet | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 were | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | conj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 stars | advmod |
| 15 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 were | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crept | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 crept | nsubj |
| 21 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 crept | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looked | cc |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crept | conj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | all | time | quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | stars | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | stars not said here | dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | creep out | past | dog | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | past | dog not said here | about dog | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
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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