The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 33
At every step he looked all round him to see if perchance there was anything lurking behind the stones.
Who acts: Walter, anything · What happens: look, see, be, lurk · To what, where: stones
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, anything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:644): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 step | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 step | det |
| 3 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 him | advmod |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 looked | advcl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 was | mark |
| 12 | perchance | perchance | ADV | _ | 14 was | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | ccomp |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 was | nsubj |
| 16 | lurking | lurk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 anything | acl |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 stones | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stones | det |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lurking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Walter | at every step; round Lisa | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at step=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Walter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | anything | there | perchance property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | lurk | gerund | the stones | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind stone=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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