Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 7
Soon his eyes closed, and he was fast asleep.
Who acts: eyes, king · What happens: close, be
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, king), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 closed | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 closed | nsubj |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asleep | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asleep | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asleep | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asleep | cop |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 asleep | advmod |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 closed | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | king's eyes | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | king | asleep, fast property | tree rules |
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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