The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 97
“Oh, light of my eyes,” he sobbed; “I am indeed punished for my pride.
Who acts: king, my · What happens: sob, punish, light, pride · To what, where: nothing, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 light | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sobbed | parataxis |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 light | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sobbed | nsubj |
| 11 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 punished | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 punished | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 punished | aux:pass |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 punished | advmod |
| 17 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sobbed | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 pride | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pride | nmod:poss |
| 20 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 punished | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | punish in a quote | present · passive | nothing | for my pride; indeed property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for pride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | light in a quote | my eyes | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | pride in a quote | my | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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