The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 89
So he took hold of the handle of the cover and raised it very slowly and carefully, while the woman stooped down to peep.
Who acts: Man, woman · What happens: take, raise, stoop down, peep, hold · To what, where: hold, handle
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 handle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 handle | det |
| 7 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cover | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cover | det |
| 10 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handle | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 raised | cc |
| 12 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 raised | obj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 slowly | advmod |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 raised | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 carefully | cc |
| 17 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 15 slowly | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stooped | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 stooped | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stooped | nsubj |
| 22 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 stooped | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 peep | mark |
| 25 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 stooped | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Man | hold of the handle of the cover | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | Man not said here | hold | slowly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | stoop down | past | the woman | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | peep | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hold | the handle of the cover | nom hold «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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