The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 61
Then the maiden drew near, and her eyes, as she looked at him, were the eyes of the deer that day in the forest.
Who acts: maiden, head · What happens: draw, look, be · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, head), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eyes | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 looked | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eyes | punct |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 eyes | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eyes | det |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 deer | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 deer | det |
| 22 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deer | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 day | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the maiden | head's eyes | then | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | look | past | head | at palace | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the eyes | of the deer that day in the forest | tree rules |
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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