The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 67
Father Gatto’s yellow eyes darted fire.
Who acts: yellow eyes · What happens: dart · To what, where: fire
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yellow eyes), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Gatto | Gatto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Father | case |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 darted | nsubj |
| 6 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 darted | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dart | past | Father's yellow eyes | fire | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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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