The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 87
They smarted dreadfully, and he could hardly see to walk straight, and everyone wondered what was the matter with him.
Who acts: eyes, Abu, everyone · What happens: smart, see, walk, wonder, be · To what, where: matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Abu, everyone), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smarted | nsubj |
| 2 | smarted | smart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 2 smarted | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 8 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 smarted | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 walk | mark |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | xcomp |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 walk | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wondered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wondered | cc |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 wondered | nsubj |
| 16 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smarted | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 matter | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 matter | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 matter | det |
| 20 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wondered | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 matter | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smarted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smart | past | eyes = eye | dreadfully property | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | could | Abu | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | Abu not said here | straight property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | everyone | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the matter | with Abu | 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: «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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