The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 7
The old couple's eyes glittered greedily; but custom forbade them to touch the price before all was arranged.
Who acts: eyes, custom · What happens: glitter, forbid, touch, arrange · To what, where: eyes, price, all
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, custom), 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 | 3 couple | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 couple | amod |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 couple | case |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glittered | nsubj |
| 6 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 6 glittered | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 forbade | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 forbade | cc |
| 10 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forbade | nsubj |
| 11 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glittered | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 forbade | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 touch | mark |
| 14 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forbade | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 price | det |
| 16 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touch | obj |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 arranged | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 arranged | aux:pass |
| 20 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 touch | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | past | the old couple's eyes | greedily property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forbid | past | custom | eyes = eye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | touch | to-infinitive | custom not said here | the price | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme price=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrange | past · passive | all | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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