The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 49
The story went on, but the story-teller never once looked at the prince, even through her veil, though he on his side never moved his eyes from her.
Who acts: story, king · What happens: go on, look, not move · To what, where: veil, story teller, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, king), 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teller | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teller | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 10 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 once | advmod |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 looked | advmod |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 prince | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 veil | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 veil | advmod |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 veil | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 veil | nmod:poss |
| 21 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 moved | punct |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 29 moved | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 moved | nsubj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 side | nmod:poss |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 he | nmod |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 moved | advmod |
| 29 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 moved | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 moved | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the story | help's veil | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through veil=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | participle · passive | the story teller | at the prince; once property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not move | past | king | king's eyes | from help | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from she=Trajectory |
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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