The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 96

It looked about at first without seeing him, and whispering to itself, ‘There is no one here,’ fluttered lightly on to the tree and stretched out his beak for the dates.

Who acts: It, one · What happens: look, see, whisper, be, flutter, stretch out · To what, where: boy, corn, beak

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 looked	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 seeing	mark
7	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seeing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fluttered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fluttered	cc
11	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 fluttered	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 itself	case
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 whispering	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whispering	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
16	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fluttered	parataxis
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 is	nsubj
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 is	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
23	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
24	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	25 on	advmod
25	on	on	ADV	_	23 fluttered	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 tree	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tree	det
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fluttered	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stretched	cc
30	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 fluttered	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 stretched	compound:prt
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 beak	nmod:poss
33	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stretched	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 dates	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dates	det
36	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stretched	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	It				about property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at first=Theme
2	see	gerund		boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	whisper speech: assert	gerund			corn			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient
4	be	present	no one			here; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	flutter	past					to the tree	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stretch out	participle		boy's beak			for the dates	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beak=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 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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