The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 43
'Is that you, Pinkel?' asked the witch when she saw him, her eyes gleaming savagely.
Who acts: you, Pinkel, head, eyes · What happens: be, ask, see, gleam · To what, where: Pinkel, witch
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Pinkel, head, eyes), 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 | _ | 6 Pinkel | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Pinkel | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 Pinkel | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Pinkel | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pinkel | punct |
| 6 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pinkel | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pinkel | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saw | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyes | punct |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | obj |
| 19 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 eyes | acl |
| 20 | savagely | savagely | ADV | _ | 19 gleaming | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | Pinkel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Pinkel | the witch | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | head | Pinkel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gleam | gerund | head's eyes not said here | savagely property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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