The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 68
As he walked along his eyes fell upon a big eight-oared boat that lay upon the shore, and his face shone with pleasure. '
Who acts: Andras, eyes, big oared boat, face · What happens: walk, fall, oar, lie, shine · To what, where: big oared boat, shore
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Andras, eyes, big oared boat, face), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 walked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 fell | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | advcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 boat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boat | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boat | amod |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 oared | punct |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 eight | punct |
| 13 | oared | oar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 boat | amod |
| 14 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 boat | acl:relcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shone | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shone | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 face | nmod:poss |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shone | nsubj |
| 24 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 walked | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 pleasure | case |
| 26 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shone | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 shone | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Andras | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | Andras's eyes | a big oared boat | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon boat=Location | ||||
| 3 | oar | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lie | past | a big oared boat | the shore | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shore=Location | ||||
| 5 | shine | participle | Andras's face | with pleasure | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pleasure=Theme |
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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