The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 38
But when the girl's eyes fell on it, she cried out:
Who acts: eyes, smith · What happens: fall, cry out · To what, where: servant
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, smith), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fell | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 girl | case |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cried | compound:prt |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the girl's eyes | servant | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=Location | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | smith | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/6/38/