The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 29
But lift up my eyebrows, which have fallen over my eyes, that I may see my son-in-law.’
Who acts: eyebrows, I · What happens: lift up, fall, see · To what, where: eyebrows, eyes, son, law
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyebrows, I), 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 | _ | 2 lift | cc |
| 2 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lift | compound:prt |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lift | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fallen | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fallen | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fallen | aux |
| 9 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 eyebrows | acl:relcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fallen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lift | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 law | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 law | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 in | punct |
| 23 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lift | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | present | my eyebrows | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fall | present · perfect | my eyebrows | my eyes | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over eye=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | may | I | my son | law | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=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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