The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 75
Everyone who met him stared and looked after him, for he was flying like a madman, and he could not have looked worse if a herd of rams had been butting at him all night long.
Who acts: Everyone, attorney, herd · What happens: meet, stare, look, fly, not look, butt · To what, where: attorney
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, attorney, herd), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 stared | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Everyone | acl:relcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stared | conj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flying | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 flying | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flying | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flying | aux |
| 14 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 looked | advcl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 madman | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 madman | det |
| 17 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flying | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looked | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 looked | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 looked | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 looked | aux |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stared | parataxis |
| 25 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 looked | xcomp |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 butting | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 herd | det |
| 28 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 butting | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 rams | case |
| 30 | rams | ram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 herd | nmod |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 butting | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 butting | aux |
| 33 | butting | butt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 looked | advcl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 butting | obl |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 night | det |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 butting | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 butting | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | attorney | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | stare | past | Everyone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | past | Everyone not said here | after attorney | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fly | past · progressive | attorney | like a madman | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not look | could · perfect | attorney | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | butt a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · progressive | a herd of rams | night | at attorney; long property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=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 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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