Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 41

At last a tiny blue-eyed child looked up into the king's smiling face, and said in her simple way,--

Who acts: last tiny eyed child · What happens: look up, smile, say · To what, where: simple way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last tiny eyed child), 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	8 child	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyed	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 blue	punct
7	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 looked	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	16 face	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 face	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 face	amod
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 way	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 way	nmod:poss
22	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look up	past	a last tiny eyed child		into the king's smiling face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme
2	smile	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past		Prussia's simple way		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in way=Manner

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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