The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 126
When he had done this and again looked around, the two pieces had united, and a horrible-looking man sat on his seat.
Who acts: half, looking man · What happens: do, look around, unite, look, sit · To what, where: this, two pieces, seat
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 (half, looking man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 united | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pieces | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pieces | nummod |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 united | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 united | aux |
| 15 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 done | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sat | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 19 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looking | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 horrible | punct |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sat | nsubj |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 seat | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 seat | nmod:poss |
| 26 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sat | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | half | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look around | past | half not said here | again | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | unite | past · perfect · passive | the two pieces | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | sit | past | a looking man | half's seat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=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 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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