The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 78
His eyes he fixed steadily on the ears of the colt, that he might not see the dancers.
Who acts: eyes, instant · What happens: fix, not see · To what, where: ears, dancers
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 (eyes, instant), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fixed | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fixed | nsubj |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 4 fixed | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ears | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ears | det |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fixed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 colt | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 colt | det |
| 11 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ears | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fixed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dancers | det |
| 19 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | instant's eyes | the ears of the colt | steadily property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | not see | might | instant | the dancers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancer=Stimulus |
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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