The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 25
He looked at her again, and Bellah was forgotten as he answered:
Who acts: man · What happens: look, forget, answer · To what, where: Bellah
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgotten | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgotten | cc |
| 8 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 forgotten | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 10 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 answered | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgotten | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | man | again | at wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||
| 2 | forget | past · passive | Bellah | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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