The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 37
The guests’ eyes sought in vain for the bridegroom, but could only see a handsome young man, with a coat of blue velvet and silver and a gold crown upon his head.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: seek, see · To what, where: vain, handsome young man
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 2 guests | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sought | nsubj |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vain | case |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sought | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 bridegroom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bridegroom | det |
| 10 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sought | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 coat | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 coat | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 coat | det |
| 23 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 velvet | case |
| 25 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 velvet | amod |
| 26 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coat | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 silver | cc |
| 28 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 velvet | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 crown | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 crown | det |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 crown | compound |
| 32 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 velvet | conj |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 crown | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | the guests's eyes | vain | for the bridegroom | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for bridegroom=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | could | the guests's eyes not said here | a handsome young man | with a coat of blue velvet and silver and a gold crown upon man's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=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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