The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 46
He looked about him and, to his amazement, saw close by a royal seat.
Who acts: foot, amazement · What happens: look, see, amaze
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, amazement), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 amazement | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 amazement | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 9 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 amazement | punct |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 12 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 seat | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 seat | det |
| 15 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seat | amod |
| 16 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | foot | about Prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | foot's amazement | by a royal seat; close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | amaze | foot | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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