The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 33
She looked all round her, and then up the tree, and there she saw a little tiny man, who was eating oranges.
Who acts: queen, little tiny man · What happens: look, see, eat · To what, where: little tiny man, oranges
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (queen, little tiny 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 her | advmod |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tree | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 tree | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eating | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 eating | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 eating | aux |
| 24 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 25 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 eating | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | queen | round crocodile | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | queen | a little tiny man | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | eat | past · progressive | a little tiny man | oranges | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=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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