English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 13
And when Mr. Fox was seated at table opposite Lady Mary, he looked at her.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: seat, look · To what, where: Fox, table opposite
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 seated | mark |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 looked | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 opposite | case |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opposite | compound |
| 9 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obl |
| 10 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mary | compound |
| 11 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 opposite | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seated | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | Fox Mr. | table opposite | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Fox | at Mary | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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