The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 91
He was standing quietly by the open window looking at the fire that was burning in the neighbour’s house just opposite.
Who acts: Grocer, fire · What happens: stand, look, burn · To what, where: house
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 (Grocer, fire), 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 standing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 standing | aux |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 standing | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 window | amod |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 standing | obl |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 standing | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 burning | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 burning | aux |
| 15 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 fire | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 neighbour | det |
| 18 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 neighbour | case |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burning | obl |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 opposite | advmod |
| 22 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 house | amod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Grocer | by the open window; quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Grocer not said here | at the fire | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fire=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | past · progressive | the fire | the neighbour's house | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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