The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 79
Then came one so full of sparks that they flew both out of his eyes and his nose.
Who acts: sparks · What happens: come, fly · To what, where: one, both, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparks), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 came | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 full | advmod |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sparks | case |
| 7 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sparks | acl:relcl |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 flew | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flew | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nose | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 nose | nmod:poss |
| 18 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | one | then | full property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | past | sparks | both | Prince's eyes and Prince's nose | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent both=Theme out eye=Location |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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