The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 20
The shepherd had to shut his staring eyes tight not to be dazzled with the brilliant pond, but still he said:
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: have, shut, not dazzle, say · To what, where: staring eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shepherd | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 shut | mark |
| 5 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | staring | staring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | compound |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shut | obj |
| 9 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 5 shut | advmod |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 dazzled | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 dazzled | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 13 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shut | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 pond | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pond | det |
| 16 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pond | amod |
| 17 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dazzled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 said | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the shepherd | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shut | to-infinitive | the shepherd not said here | shepherd's staring eyes | tight property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 3 | not dazzle | to-infinitive · passive | the shepherd not said here | with the brilliant pond | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | shepherd | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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