The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 79

From his dark corner he could see into the room, and he counted four and twenty of them, all big, cross-looking men.

Who acts: son · What happens: see, count, cross-look · To what, where: dark corner, four, men

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 (son), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 corner	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 corner	nmod:poss
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 corner	amod
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 counted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 counted	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 counted	nsubj
14	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	conj
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 counted	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 twenty	cc
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 four	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 four	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 big	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 big	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 counted	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cross-looking	punct
24	cross-looking	cross-look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 big	advcl
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cross-looking	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	son		son's dark corner	into the room	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	count	past	son	four of men			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme
3	cross-look	gerund	son not said here	men			tree rules

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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