The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 17
He looked well at her, said nothing, but rode on further.
Who acts: son · What happens: look, say · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 further | case |
| 13 | further | further | ADV | _ | 11 rode | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | son | at girl; well property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | son not said here | nothing | rode obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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 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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