More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 111

She stared at it, and rubbed her eyes and stared at it again; but she couldn't make it look like anything but a great lump of silver. "

Who acts: weight, treasure · What happens: stare, rub, not make, not look · To what, where: eyes, treasure

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weight, treasure), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stared	nsubj
2	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stared	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rubbed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rubbed	cc
7	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stared	parataxis
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rubbed	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stared	cc
11	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rubbed	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stared	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	11 stared	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 make	advmod
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stared	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	xcomp
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 anything	case
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 look	obl
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 lump	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lump	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lump	amod
28	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 anything	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 silver	case
30	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lump	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	weight			at treasure	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	rub	past		weight's eyes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	stare	past			again	at treasure	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	not make	could	weight	treasure			tree rules
5	not look	infinitive	treasure not said here			like anything	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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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