The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 44
Then tears rose in the eyes of the elder, but winking them hastily away, he said:
Who acts: tears, man · What happens: rise, wink, say · To what, where: eyes, tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, man), 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 | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 elder | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 elder | det |
| 9 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 winking | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 winking | cc |
| 12 | winking | wink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rose | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 winking | obj |
| 14 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 winking | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | tears | the eyes of the elder | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eye=Location | |||
| 2 | wink | gerund | tears not said here | tears = tear | away property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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