The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 116
But just as things looked their worst along came Esben.
Who acts: things, Esben · What happens: look, come · To what, where: worst
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, Esben), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 worst | nmod:poss |
| 7 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 looked | obj |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 came | case |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 10 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | things | brothers's worst | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bad=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Esben | vn escape-51.1-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/116/