The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 51

He looked sharply about him on all sides, but saw no one, and then vanished into the forest.

Who acts: man · What happens: look, see, vanish · To what, where: sides, one, forest

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 sides	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sides	det
8	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vanished	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 vanished	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 vanished	advmod
17	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vanished	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	man		all sides		about rock; sharply property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
2	see	past		no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	vanish	past			the forest	then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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