The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 6
Suddenly his eyes fell upon a man dressed after the fashion of his native country, and he ran up to him and spoke to him in his own tongue.
Who acts: eyes, heart · What happens: fall, dress, run up, speak · To what, where: man, him, heart, own tongue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, heart), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 fell | 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 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 man | acl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 fashion | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fashion | det |
| 11 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dressed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 country | nmod:poss |
| 14 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fashion | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 ran | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ran | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spoke | cc |
| 24 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 spoke | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 tongue | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tongue | amod |
| 30 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spoke | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | heart's eyes | upon a man; suddenly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon man=Location | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | a man not said here | after the fashion of heart's native country | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | run up | past | heart | him = he | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | heart's eyes not said here | heart | heart's own tongue | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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