The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 128
After some time the gray-haired man came, looked at her by the light of his candle, and shook his head.
Who acts: haired man · What happens: come, look, shake, light · To what, where: head, candle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haired man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 5 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 haired | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 gray | punct |
| 7 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 candle | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 candle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 light | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shook | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shook | cc |
| 22 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shook | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the haired man | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the haired man not said here | at Sleep; by the light of man's candle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | the haired man not said here | man's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | light | man's candle | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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