The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 66

When she looked back the Captain of the Guard was gone, and she was alone, except for Patypata, Grabugeon, and Tintin, who lay upon the ground.

Who acts: Miranda, Captain · What happens: look back, be, lay · To what, where: Tintin, ground

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miranda, Captain), 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	3 looked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	back	back	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Captain	det
6	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Guard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Guard	det
9	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Captain	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	cop
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 alone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 alone	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 alone	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 alone	cop
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 gone	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Patypata	punct
18	except	except	ADP	_	20 Patypata	case
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 Patypata	case
20	Patypata	Patypata	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Grabugeon	punct
22	Grabugeon	Grabugeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Patypata	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
25	Tintin	Tintin	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	past	Miranda				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	the Captain of the Guard			gone property	tree rules
3	is	past	Miranda			alone property	tree rules
4	lay	present		Tintin	the ground		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination

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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