The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 69
He then looked round for something else to work with, and found a pair of strong beams lying near.
Who acts: flail, strong beams · What happens: look round, work, find, lie · To what, where: pair
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flail, strong beams), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 something | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 something | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 work | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pair | det |
| 15 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 beams | case |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beams | amod |
| 18 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pair | nmod |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 beams | acl |
| 20 | near | near | ADV | _ | 19 lying | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | flail | then | for something; round property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | |||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | flail not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | flail not said here | a pair of strong beams | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | strong beams not said here | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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