The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 64
He was puzzled, not knowing what to do next, until it occurred to him to see if the windows would help him, and, looking at the nearest, he saw a picture of himself lifting the picture from the wall.
Who acts: key, windows, prince · What happens: puzzle, not know, do, occur, see, help · To what, where: prince, picture, wall
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (key, windows, prince), 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 | 3 puzzled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 puzzled | aux:pass |
| 3 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knowing | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 knowing | advmod |
| 6 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 puzzled | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knowing | xcomp |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 occurred | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 occurred | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 occurred | nsubj |
| 14 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 puzzled | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 occurred | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 occurred | advcl |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 windows | det |
| 21 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 help | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 help | aux |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 saw | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 saw | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looking | punct |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 saw | advcl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 nearest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 nearest | det |
| 31 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 looking | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looking | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 saw | nsubj |
| 34 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 puzzled | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 picture | det |
| 36 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 saw | obj |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 lifting | mark |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 lifting | nsubj |
| 39 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 picture | acl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 picture | det |
| 41 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lifting | obj |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 wall | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wall | det |
| 44 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lifting | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puzzle | past · passive | prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | occur | past | key | prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | key not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | help a condition, not said to happen | would | the windows | prince | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | look | gerund | prince not said here | at the nearest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at near=Theme | ||||
| 8 | see | past | prince | a picture | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | lift | gerund | prince | the picture | the wall | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme from wall=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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