The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 81
The princess too saw and wondered, and her eyes could not weary of looking at the lovely things, or her fingers of stroking the rich soft stuffs, and of holding up the sparkling jewels to the light.
Who acts: princess, eyes, fingers · What happens: see, wonder, not weary, look, stroke, hold up · To what, where: rich soft stuffs, sparkling jewels
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 (princess, eyes, fingers), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wondered | cc |
| 6 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 weary | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 weary | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 weary | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 weary | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 weary | advmod |
| 13 | weary | weary | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 looking | mark |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 weary | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 things | det |
| 18 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fingers | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 fingers | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 things | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 stroking | mark |
| 25 | stroking | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 fingers | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 stuffs | det |
| 27 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stuffs | amod |
| 28 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stuffs | amod |
| 29 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stroking | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 holding | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 holding | cc |
| 32 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 holding | mark |
| 33 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | advcl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 holding | compound:prt |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 jewels | det |
| 36 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 jewels | amod |
| 37 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 holding | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 light | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 light | det |
| 40 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 holding | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | the princess not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not weary | could | princess's eyes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | princess's eyes not said here | at the lovely things princess's fingers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stroke | gerund | princess's fingers not said here | the rich soft stuffs | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | hold up | gerund | the princess not said here | the sparkling jewels | to the light | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jewel=Theme |
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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