The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 15
After the King had looked at them for a little he went forward and saluted them.
Who acts: Hermod · What happens: look, go, salute · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hermod), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 King | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | aux |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 little | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saluted | cc |
| 15 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saluted | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect | after the King | at King; for a little | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Location for little=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Hermod | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | salute | past | Hermod not said here | King | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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