The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 107
Then he looked around him and beheld in the corner a large bed.
Who acts: other · What happens: look, behold · To what, where: corner
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beheld | cc |
| 7 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 corner | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beheld | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bed | amod |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corner | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | other | then | around friend | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme | |||
| 2 | behold | participle | other not said here | the corner and a large bed | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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