The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 5
Bernez ceased his task for a moment to look at him.
Who acts: Bernez · What happens: cease, look, task · To what, where: task
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bernez), 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 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ceased | nsubj |
| 2 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 task | nmod:poss |
| 4 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ceased | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ceased | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ceased | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 look | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | Bernez | Bernez's task | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector task=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | Bernez not said here | at Bernez | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | task | Bernez | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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