The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 106
Already he felt that death was near him, when his eyes fell on the bag where the oranges peeped out.
Who acts: adventurer, death, eyes, oranges · What happens: feel, be, fall, peep out · To what, where: bag
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventurer, death, eyes, oranges), 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 3 felt | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 him | mark |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 him | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 him | cop |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 fell | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bag | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bag | det |
| 16 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 peeped | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 oranges | det |
| 19 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 peeped | nsubj |
| 20 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 peeped | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | adventurer | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | death | near head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | adventurer's eyes | the bag | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bag=Location | ||||
| 4 | peep out | past | the oranges | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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