The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 96
Yes, this time he saw something that looked black, far, far away, and was rather like a church tower.
Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: see, look, be · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 far | punct |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 away | punct |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tower | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tower | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tower | cop |
| 19 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 23 tower | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 tower | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tower | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tower | compound |
| 23 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Cinderlad | something | time | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | look | past | black property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | like a church tower | tree rules |
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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