The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 68
But when his eyes rested on the woman, they took on a look which seemed to say ‘I knew it,’ though this neither the charcoal-burner nor his wife ever noticed.
Who acts: eyes, orders, look, I, this, wife · What happens: rest, take, seem, say, know, burner · To what, where: look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, orders, look, 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 | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 rested | advmod |
| 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 | 5 rested | nsubj |
| 5 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rested | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rested | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 look | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 look | det |
| 14 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seemed | xcomp |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | ccomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 burner | mark |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 burner | nsubj |
| 27 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 31 burner | cc:preconj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 burner | det |
| 29 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 burner | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 charcoal | punct |
| 31 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | advcl |
| 32 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 34 wife | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 wife | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 burner | conj |
| 35 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 noticed | advmod |
| 36 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 wife | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | king's eyes | on the woman | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on woman=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | orders = order | a look | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on look=Destination | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | a look | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | a look not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know | past | I | look | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | burner | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | notice | past | king's wife not said here | ever | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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