The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 65
At this moment they were all open, and Peronnik knew well that if the black man caught a glimpse of him he would cast his ball.
Who acts: men, Peronnik, black man · What happens: be, know, catch, cast, glimpse · To what, where: glimpse, ball, Peronnik
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Peronnik, black man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 open | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 open | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 open | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 open | advmod |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 10 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 open | conj |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 knew | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 cast | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 caught | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | nsubj |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cast | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 glimpse | det |
| 20 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 glimpse | nmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cast | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 cast | aux |
| 25 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knew | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 ball | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cast | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | men = man | moment | all, open property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | Peronnik | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | catch a condition, not said to happen | past | the black man | a glimpse of Peronnik | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cast | would | Peronnik | Peronnik's ball | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Product | ||||
| 5 | glimpse | Peronnik | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=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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