The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 105
And the eyes of the giant glistened as he took the heap of blue stones in his hand.
Who acts: eyes, giant · What happens: glisten, take · To what, where: heap, hand
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, giant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glistened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glistened | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 giant | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 took | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glistened | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heap | det |
| 12 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stones | case |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stones | amod |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heap | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glistened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glisten | participle | the eyes of the giant | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | giant | the heap of blue stones | giant's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heap=Value in hand=Location |
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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