The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 34
The young men looked at each other, and slowly shook their heads.
Who acts: young men · What happens: look, shake · To what, where: heads
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shook | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shook | cc |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 shook | advmod |
| 11 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heads | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shook | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the young men | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | the young men not said here | sons's heads | slowly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=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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