The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 96

He looked all about him and thought he must be dreaming, as he could not see anybody.

Who acts: Frisk · What happens: look, think, dream, not see · To what, where: anybody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frisk), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 him	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thought	cc
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dreaming	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 dreaming	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 dreaming	aux
11	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thought	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 see	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dreaming	parataxis
18	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 see	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Frisk		about master	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Frisk not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	dream	must · progressive	Frisk			vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	not see	could	Frisk	anybody		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Stimulus

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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