The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 92
Suddenly the beautiful creature lifted her head, and looked up into Eglantine's face, with tears streaming from her eyes.
Who acts: beautiful creature, tears · What happens: lift, look up, stream · To what, where: head, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful creature, tears), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 creature | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creature | amod |
| 4 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 13 | Eglantine | Eglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Eglantine | case |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tears | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tears | case |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | obl |
| 19 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 tears | acl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 streaming | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the beautiful creature | creature's head | suddenly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | look up | past | the beautiful creature not said here | with tears; into Eglantine's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stream | gerund | tears not said here | creature's eyes | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source |
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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