English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 13
At last a good-natured looking gentleman saw how hungry he looked.
Who acts: looking gentleman, Dick · What happens: look, see · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (looking gentleman, Dick), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gentleman | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 natured | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 6 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looking | compound |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 gentleman | amod |
| 8 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 hungry | advmod |
| 11 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hungry | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | a looking gentleman | last | hungry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | look | past | Dick | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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