The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 43
Whilst he was considering, he observed the old witch take up a cage secretly and go with it towards the door.
Who acts: Joringel · What happens: consider, observe, take up, go · To what, where: old witch, cage, door
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 4 considering | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 considering | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 considering | aux |
| 4 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 observed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 considering | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 observed | nsubj |
| 7 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 witch | amod |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | obj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 observed | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cage | det |
| 14 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past · progressive | Joringel | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | observe | past | Joringel | the old witch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take up | infinitive | Joringel not said here | a cage | secretly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | infinitive | Joringel not said here | the door | with cage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards door=Initial_Location |
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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