The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 64
Seeing her father's eyes fixed on the stream, Diamantina looked hastily in that direction.
Who acts: Diamantina · What happens: see, fix, look · To what, where: eyes, stream
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diamantina), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 looked | advcl |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 father | case |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 6 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 eyes | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stream | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fixed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 11 | Diamantina | Diamantina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 direction | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 direction | det |
| 16 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Diamantina not said here | princess's father's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | princess's father's eyes not said here | the stream | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Diamantina | in that direction; hastily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=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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