Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 23
Ah, how those jewels dazzled the eyes of the wondering boys!
Who acts: jewels · What happens: dazzle, wonder · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewels), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 dazzled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dazzled | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 dazzled | advmod |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 jewels | det |
| 5 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dazzled | nsubj |
| 6 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dazzled | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 boys | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boys | det |
| 11 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 boys | amod |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | past | that jewels | the eyes of the wondering boys | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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