The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 70

But after a while she began to look about her, and her eyes fell on a little fish that seemed made out of a rainbow, so brilliant were the colours he flashed out.

Who acts: third, eyes, brilliant colours · What happens: begin, look, fall, make out, be, flash out · To what, where: little fish, rainbow, brilliant colours

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 (third, eyes, brilliant colours), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 while	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brilliant	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 fish	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fish	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fish	amod
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 made	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux:pass
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fish	acl:relcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 rainbow	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 rainbow	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rainbow	det
26	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brilliant	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 brilliant	advmod
29	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 colours	amod
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 colours	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 colours	det
32	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 flashed	nsubj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 flashed	nsubj
34	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 flashed	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 flashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	third			while		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	third not said here				about third	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme
3	fall	past	third's eyes				on a little fish	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fish=Location
4	make out	past · passive		a little fish	a rainbow			tree rules
5	is a	past		the brilliant colours				tree rules
6	flash out	past	the brilliant colours					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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