The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 251
They lifted her up, and looked round everywhere to see if they could find anything poisonous about.
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: lift up, look round, see, find · To what, where: SNOWDROP, anything
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 (dwarfs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 9 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 looked | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 looked | advcl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | ccomp |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 find | obj |
| 17 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 anything | amod |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 poisonous | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | dwarfs = dwarf | SNOWDROP | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look round | past | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | everywhere, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | find a condition, not said to happen | could | dwarfs = dwarf | anything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
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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