The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 64

His eyes shone at the sight of the rice, for it was his favourite food, and like the sly fellow he was, he proposed a bargain to the crab.

Who acts: eyes, rice, Monkey · What happens: shine, be, propose, sight · To what, where: sight, bargain, crab, rice

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, rice, Monkey), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sight	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sight	det
6	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 rice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rice	det
9	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sight	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 food	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	16 food	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 food	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 food	cop
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 food	nmod:poss
15	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 food	amod
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 proposed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 proposed	cc
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 fellow	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fellow	det
21	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fellow	amod
22	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 proposed	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 was	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fellow	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fellow	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 proposed	nsubj
27	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bargain	det
29	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 proposed	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 crab	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 crab	det
32	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 proposed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	Monkey's eyes			the sight of the rice		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location
2	is	past	rice				for Monkey's favourite food	tree rules
3	propose	past	Monkey	a bargain	the crab		like the sly fellow	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme to crab=Recipient
4	sight			the rice				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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