The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 15
The children looked round wonderingly, and saw a little kind-looking old man, in a white coat and a red cap, limping out from among the bushes, for he was lame in his left foot; neither Lisa nor Aina could utter a word, they were so filled with surprise.
Who acts: children, man, Lisa · What happens: look, see, limp out, be, utter, fill · To what, where: little looking old man, white coat, bushes, left foot, word, children
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, man, Lisa), 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 | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | wonderingly | wonderingly | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 11 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 kind | punct |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 man | amod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 coat | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 coat | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coat | det |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coat | amod |
| 20 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cap | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cap | det |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cap | amod |
| 24 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coat | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 limping | punct |
| 26 | limping | limp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 limping | compound:prt |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 bushes | case |
| 29 | among | among | ADP | _ | 31 bushes | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bushes | det |
| 31 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 limping | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lame | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 lame | case |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lame | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 lame | cop |
| 36 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 foot | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 foot | nmod:poss |
| 39 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 foot | amod |
| 40 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lame | obl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 utter | punct |
| 42 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 43 Lisa | cc:preconj |
| 43 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 utter | nsubj |
| 44 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 45 Aina | cc |
| 45 | Aina | Aina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Lisa | conj |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 utter | aux |
| 47 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 word | det |
| 49 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 utter | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 filled | punct |
| 51 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 filled | nsubj |
| 52 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 filled | aux:pass |
| 53 | so | so | ADV | _ | 54 filled | advmod |
| 54 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 utter | conj |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 surprise | case |
| 56 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 filled | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the children | round, wonderingly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a little looking old man | a white coat and a red cap | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | limp out | gerund | the bushes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bush=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | is | past | man | man's left foot | lame property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | utter speech: other | could | Lisa nor Aina | a word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 7 | fill | past · passive | children = child | with surprise | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with surprise=Instrument |
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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