The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 16
Then his eyes grew fascinated with the dark waters of the pool close to his feet, and he looked at it as if he could never look away.
Who acts: manner · What happens: fascinate, look, not look away · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner), 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 | 5 fascinated | 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 | 5 fascinated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fascinated | aux:pass |
| 5 | fascinated | fascinate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 waters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waters | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 waters | amod |
| 9 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fascinated | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pool | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pool | det |
| 12 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waters | nmod |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pool | amod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 close | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fascinated | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 look | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 look | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 look | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 look | aux |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 look | advmod |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 looked | advcl |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 look | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fascinated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fascinate | past · passive | manner's eyes | then | with the dark waters of the pool | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | look | past | manner | at pool | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not look away | could | manner | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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