The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 156
Then the first Dwarf looked round and saw a little hollow in his bed, and he asked again:
Who acts: first Dwarf, seventh · What happens: look round, see, ask · To what, where: bed
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first Dwarf, seventh), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dwarf | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Dwarf | amod |
| 4 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hollow | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bed | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 asked | advmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | the first Dwarf | then | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | past | the first Dwarf not said here | seventh's bed | hollow property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | seventh | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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