The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 25
Everybody was looking on, and the King was chuckling to himself at the idea of finding the piece of muslin in a nutshell.
Who acts: Everybody, King, idea · What happens: look on, chuckle, find · To what, where: King, idea, piece, nutshell
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (Everybody, King, idea), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | aux |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 looking | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chuckling | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chuckling | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 chuckling | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 chuckling | aux |
| 10 | chuckling | chuckle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looking | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 chuckling | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 idea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 idea | det |
| 15 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chuckling | obl |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 finding | mark |
| 17 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 idea | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 piece | det |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finding | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 muslin | case |
| 21 | muslin | muslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piece | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 nutshell | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 nutshell | det |
| 24 | nutshell | nutshell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finding | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past · progressive | Everybody | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | chuckle | past · progressive | the King | King | the idea | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||
| 3 | find | gerund | the idea not said here | the piece of muslin | a nutshell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic |
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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