The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 145

And the Snow-man looked in that direction, and saw a smooth polished object with a brass pipe.

Who acts: Snow man · What happens: look, see, polish · To what, where: smooth polished object

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Snow	punct
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 direction	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 direction	det
9	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 object	det
14	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 object	amod
15	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 object	amod
16	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 pipe	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pipe	det
19	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pipe	compound
20	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 object	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Snow man		in that direction	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=Theme
2	see	past	the Snow man not said here	a smooth polished object	with a brass pipe	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus
3	polish	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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