The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 145

One day, as he wandered about absorbed in melancholy reflections, he heard sudden shouts and exclamations of amazement, and if he had taken the trouble to look up he could not have helped being as astonished as everyone else, for through the air a chariot of crystal was slowly approaching which glittered in the sunshine.

Who acts: Mirliflor, chariot · What happens: wander, absorb, hear, shout, take, look up · To what, where: One day, melancholy reflections, exclamations, trouble, air, sunshine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mirliflor, chariot), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wandered	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 wandered	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wandered	nsubj
6	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 day	acl:relcl
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 absorbed	advmod
8	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wandered	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 reflections	case
10	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reflections	compound
11	reflections	reflection	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 absorbed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shouts	amod
16	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 exclamations	cc
18	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shouts	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 amazement	case
20	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 exclamations	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taken	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 taken	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 taken	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taken	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taken	aux
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 helped	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 trouble	det
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 taken	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 look	compound:prt
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 helped	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 helped	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 helped	advmod
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 helped	aux
36	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 astonished	advcl
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 astonished	cop
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 astonished	advmod
39	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 heard	ccomp
40	as	as	ADP	_	41 everyone	case
41	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	39 astonished	obl
42	else	else	ADV	_	41 everyone	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 approaching	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	54 approaching	mark
45	through	through	ADP	_	47 air	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 air	det
47	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 approaching	obl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 chariot	det
49	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 approaching	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 crystal	case
51	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 chariot	nmod
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 approaching	aux
53	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	54 approaching	advmod
54	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 heard	advcl
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 glittered	nsubj
56	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 approaching	ccomp
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 sunshine	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 sunshine	det
59	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 glittered	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	Mirliflor	One day not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme day=Trajectory
2	absorb	participle	Mirliflor not said here		melancholy reflections		about property	vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal
3	hear	past	Mirliflor			day		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	shout speech: express	present		exclamations of amazement				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exclamation=Topic
5	take a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Mirliflor	the trouble				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
6	look up	to-infinitive	Mirliflor not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	not help	could · perfect	Mirliflor					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	is	gerund					as everyone; astonished property	tree rules
9	approach	past · progressive	a chariot of crystal		the air		slowly property	tree rules
10	glitter	past			the sunshine			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location
11	exclaim			amazement				nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=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 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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