The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 103
Suddenly his eyes fell on the ring, and he understood.
Who acts: eyes, king · What happens: fall, understand · To what, where: ring
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, king), 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 | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ring | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 understood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 understood | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 understood | nsubj |
| 11 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | king's eyes | the ring | suddenly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ring=Location | |||
| 2 | understand | past | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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