The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 53
They rubbed it on their eyes, and by the Divine might saw again.
Who acts: bird · What happens: rub, see · To what, where: little, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rubbed | nsubj |
| 2 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rubbed | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rubbed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Divine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Divine | det |
| 11 | Divine | Divine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | aux |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rubbed | conj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 saw | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | bird | little | bird's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on eye=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | might | bird not said here | again | by the Divine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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