The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 81
The old man looked Elsa all up and down, as if he was taking her measure, bowed again to the lady, and left the hall.
Who acts: old man, man, Elsa · What happens: look, take, bow, leave, measure · To what, where: Elsa, measure, hall
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, Elsa), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 up | advmod |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 down | cc |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 up | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taking | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 taking | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 taking | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taking | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taking | aux |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 looked | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 measure | nmod:poss |
| 17 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bowed | punct |
| 19 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 bowed | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 lady | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lady | det |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bowed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 left | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 left | cc |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bowed | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hall | det |
| 28 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 left | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the old man | Elsa | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme elsa=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | past · progressive | man | Elsa's measure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bow | past | again | to the lady | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to lady=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | the hall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | |||||
| 5 | measure | Elsa | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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