The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 42
Looking up from below, they saw a white hand stretched forth to draw him in.
Who acts: windows · What happens: look up, see, stretch, draw in · To what, where: white hand, prince
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (windows), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Looking | compound:prt |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 below | case |
| 4 | below | below | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hand | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hand | acl |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 stretched | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 draw | mark |
| 14 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 stretched | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 draw | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 draw | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | gerund | windows = window not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from below=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | windows = window | a white hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stretch | participle | a white hand not said here | forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | draw in | to-infinitive | prince | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 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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