The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 72
Instead of answering at once, the ox eyed the beggar with a long look of disgust.
Who acts: ox · What happens: answer, eye · To what, where: beggar
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 (ox), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 answering | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 eyed | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 answering | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 answering | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ox | det |
| 8 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyed | nsubj |
| 9 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beggar | det |
| 11 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyed | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 look | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 look | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | amod |
| 15 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 disgust | case |
| 17 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | gerund | the ox not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eye | past | the ox | the beggar | with a long look of disgust | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beggar=Stimulus |
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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