The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 101
‘Well, the child I rubbed, sure enough; but my right eye began to smart, and I put up my finger and gave it a rub, and then stared, for never in all my life was I so frightened.
Who acts: child, right eye, I · What happens: rub, begin, put up, give, stare, not be · To what, where: finger, bottle, life
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, right eye, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 rubbed | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 rubbed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rubbed | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 rubbed | nsubj |
| 7 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rubbed | conj |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 sure | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eye | nmod:poss |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eye | amod |
| 15 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rubbed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 smart | mark |
| 18 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 put | nsubj |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 began | parataxis |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 put | compound:prt |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 finger | nmod:poss |
| 25 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gave | cc |
| 27 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 put | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 gave | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 rub | det |
| 30 | rub | rub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gave | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stared | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stared | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 stared | advmod |
| 34 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rubbed | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 frightened | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 45 frightened | mark |
| 37 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 frightened | advmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 life | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 life | det:predet |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 life | nmod:poss |
| 41 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 frightened | obl |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 frightened | cop |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 frightened | nsubj |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 frightened | advmod |
| 45 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stared | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | the child | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | my right eye | smart property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | put up | past | I | my finger | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal | ||||
| 4 | give | past | I not said here | bottle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient rub=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stare | past | the child not said here | then | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not is | past | I | my life | frightened property | tree rules |
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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