The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 15
He was looking straight before him, his teeth set.
Who acts: river · What happens: look · To what, where: teeth set
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river), 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 | 3 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | aux |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 looking | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 set | nmod:poss |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | compound |
| 10 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | river | river's teeth set | before landlady | straight property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before 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 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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