More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 3
Again she turned to look at her treasure, and as soon as she set eyes on it she cried out in astonishment. "
Who acts: she, her · What happens: turn, look, set, cry out, treasure · To what, where: eyes, treasure, astonishment
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, her), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 treasure | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cried | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 cried | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 soon | advcl |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 cried | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 astonishment | case |
| 23 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cried | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | she | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | she not said here | at her treasure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at treasure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | past | she | eyes | treasure | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | she | astonishment | soon property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in astonishment=Location | |||
| 5 | treasure | her = she | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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