The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 73
At this sight his gun almost dropped from his hand in surprise, but as he looked, there was the deer eating the corn again.
Who acts: gun, hair, deer · What happens: drop, look, be, eat · To what, where: sight, corn
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gun, hair, deer), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gun | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | nsubj |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 dropped | advmod |
| 7 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 surprise | case |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 was | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 looked | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 was | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dropped | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 deer | det |
| 22 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 was | nsubj |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 deer | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 corn | det |
| 25 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eating | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 eating | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | sight's gun | this sight | from sight's hand; in surprise; almost property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at sight=Source from hand=Trajectory in surprise=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | past | hair | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | the deer | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | the deer not said here | the corn | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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