The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 25
She left off treating the gnome with coldness and indifference; indeed, there was a look in her eyes which encouraged him to hope that she might some day return his love, and the idea pleased him mightily.
Who acts: princess, look, eyes · What happens: leave off, treat, be, encourage, hope, return · To what, where: gnome, look, love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, look, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 left | compound:prt |
| 4 | treating | treat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 left | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gnome | det |
| 6 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treating | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 coldness | case |
| 8 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treating | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 indifference | cc |
| 10 | indifference | indifference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coldness | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 12 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 was | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 indeed | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 look | det |
| 17 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 look | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 encouraged | nsubj |
| 22 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 encouraged | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hope | mark |
| 25 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 encouraged | xcomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 return | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 return | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 return | aux |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 return | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hope | ccomp |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 love | nmod:poss |
| 33 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 return | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pleased | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 pleased | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 idea | det |
| 37 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pleased | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 left | parataxis |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 pleased | nsubj |
| 40 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 38 pleased | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | past | princess | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | treat | gerund | princess not said here | the gnome | with coldness and indifference | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent gnome=Recipient with coldness=Theme | |||
| 3 | be | past | a look in princess's eyes | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | encourage | past | princess's eyes | look | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | hope not said to happen | to-infinitive | look not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | return | might | princess | look's love | day | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | |||
| 7 | love | look | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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 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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