Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 96
"But you are looking at me just as the wicked eyes looked when I fell into the yard yesterday."
Who acts: you, wicked eyes, sunshine · What happens: look, fall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wicked eyes, sunshine), 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 | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 looking | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | obl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 looked | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 looked | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | conj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fell | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looked | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 yard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 yard | det |
| 19 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 20 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · progressive | you | at sunshine | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | past | the wicked eyes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | past | sunshine | yesterday | into the yard result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into yard=Result |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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