The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 23

The man peered about, but he could see nothing but a little creature which looked like a cock with a hedgehog sitting on it, perched up in a tree.

Who acts: man, little creature, hedgehog · What happens: peer, see, look, sit, perch up · To what, where: nothing, music, tree

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, little creature, hedgehog), 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	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peered	nsubj
3	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 peered	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 peered	conj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 see	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 creature	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 creature	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creature	amod
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	conj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 creature	acl:relcl
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 cock	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cock	det
19	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 hedgehog	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hedgehog	det
22	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 hedgehog	acl
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 perched	punct
27	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 see	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 perched	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 tree	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tree	det
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 perched	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 peered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	peer	past	the man			about property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	see	could	man	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	look	past	a little creature			like a cock; with a hedgehog	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	sit	gerund	a hedgehog not said here		music		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
5	perch up	participle	man not said here		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=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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