The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 68
Two of his eyes closed, and Peronnik sang gently.
Who acts: Two · What happens: close, sing · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Two | nmod |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 eyes | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sang | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sang | cc |
| 8 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | nsubj |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 9 sang | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | colt's eyes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Two of colt's eyes | gently property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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