The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 25

As usual, he was engaged in looking at the girl, when suddenly he thought he saw a second mirror reflected in the first, exactly like his own, and with the same power.

Who acts: movement · What happens: engage, look, think, see, reflect · To what, where: movement, second mirror, first · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (movement), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 usual	case
2	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 engaged	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 usual	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 engaged	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 engaged	aux:pass
6	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 looking	mark
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 engaged	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 girl	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 thought	advmod
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 thought	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 engaged	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mirror	det
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 mirror	amod
21	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
22	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 mirror	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 first	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 first	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 reflected	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 own	punct
27	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	30 own	advmod
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 own	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 own	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 saw	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 power	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 power	cc
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 power	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 power	det
35	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 power	amod
36	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 own	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 engaged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive		movement		as usual	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as usual=Attribute
2	look	gerund				at the girl	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	movement			suddenly property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	see	past	movement	a second mirror		like movement's own and the same power	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mirror=Stimulus
5	reflect	participle		a second mirror not said here	the first		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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