The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 121
He looked, but could see nothing; and she stood trembling and her eyes wide open, looking down the way to the ford of Ballinacoola.
Who acts: last, road · What happens: look, see, stand, tremble, look down · To what, where: nothing, eyes, way
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, road), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | conj |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 12 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stood | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eyes | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obj |
| 16 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 15 eyes | advmod |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stood | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looking | punct |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stood | advcl |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looking | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 ford | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ford | det |
| 25 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looking | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Ballinacoola | case |
| 27 | Ballinacoola | Ballinacoola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ford | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | last | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | could | last not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | road | road's eyes | open property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tremble | gerund | road not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look down | gerund | road not said here | the way | to the ford of Ballinacoola | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute |
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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