The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 118
She shines like the sun, and the stars of heaven seem to sparkle in her eyes.
Who acts: plank, stars · What happens: shine, seem, sparkle · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plank, stars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:485): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shines | nsubj |
| 2 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shines | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seem | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seem | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stars | det |
| 9 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seem | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heaven | case |
| 11 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stars | nmod |
| 12 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shines | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sparkle | mark |
| 14 | sparkle | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seem | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sparkle | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | plank | like the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | the stars of heaven | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sparkle | to-infinitive | the stars of heaven not said here | plank's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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