The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 77
So he looked about for a suitable place, and found a convenient hole at the foot of an orange tree.
Who acts: fox · What happens: look, find · To what, where: convenient hole, foot
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 13 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hole | amod |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foot | det |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hole | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | amod |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foot | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | fox | for a suitable place; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | fox not said here | a convenient hole | the foot of a orange tree | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hole=Theme at foot=Asset |
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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