The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 94
Grumedan leaning back in his arm-chair, with one knee crossed over the other and his nose in the air, looked on disdainfully.
Who acts: Grumedan · What happens: lean back, cross, look · To what, where: arm chair, one knee, other
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grumedan), 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 | Grumedan | Grumedan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaning | nsubj |
| 2 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 leaning | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 chair | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chair | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 arm | punct |
| 8 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaning | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knee | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 knee | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 knee | nummod |
| 12 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaning | obl |
| 13 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 knee | acl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crossed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nose | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nose | nmod:poss |
| 19 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaning | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 air | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nose | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 leaning | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 disdainfully | case |
| 26 | disdainfully | disdainfully | ADV | _ | 24 looked | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean back | gerund | Grumedan | Grumedan's arm chair | with one knee | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | |||
| 2 | cross | participle | one knee not said here | the other | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over other=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | participle | Grumedan not said here | disdainfully property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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