The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 13
Meanwhile our friend had journeyed many miles, and was beginning to feel quite safe and comfortable, when, happening to look round, he saw in the distance a thick cloud of dust moving rapidly.
Who acts: friend, thick cloud · What happens: journey, begin, feel, happen, look round, see · To what, where: many miles, dust
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, thick cloud), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 journeyed | advmod |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journeyed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journeyed | aux |
| 5 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 miles | amod |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 journeyed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beginning | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beginning | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 beginning | aux |
| 11 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 journeyed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 feel | mark |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beginning | xcomp |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 safe | advmod |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feel | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 comfortable | cc |
| 17 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 safe | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 when | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 beginning | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 happening | punct |
| 21 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 beginning | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 happening | advcl |
| 24 | round | round | ADV | _ | 23 look | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saw | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journeyed | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 distance | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 distance | det |
| 30 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 saw | obl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cloud | det |
| 32 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cloud | amod |
| 33 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 distance | appos |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 dust | case |
| 35 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cloud | nmod |
| 36 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 cloud | acl |
| 37 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 36 moving | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past · perfect | our friend | many miles | meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | begin | past · progressive | our friend not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | feel | to-infinitive | our friend not said here | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | happen | gerund | our friend not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look round | to-infinitive | our friend not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | see | past | friend | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | move | gerund | a thick cloud of dust not said here | rapidly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | cloud | dust | nom cloud «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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