The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 25
While he was looking out for a nice shady place where he might perch comfortably he noticed a shark watching him from below with greedy eyes.
Who acts: tide, shark · What happens: look out, notice, watch · To what, where: shark, tide
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tide, shark), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 looking | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 looking | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 8 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 9 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 comfortably | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 comfortably | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 comfortably | aux |
| 14 | perch | perch | ADV | _ | 15 comfortably | advmod |
| 15 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 17 noticed | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 noticed | nsubj |
| 17 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shark | det |
| 19 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 noticed | obj |
| 20 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 shark | acl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 watching | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 below | case |
| 23 | below | below | ADV | _ | 20 watching | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | amod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 watching | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past · progressive | tide | for a nice shady place | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | tide | a shark | comfortably property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shark=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | watch | gerund | a shark not said here | tide | with greedy eyes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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