The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 31

Then he felt some one touch him on the shoulder; and he turned, and saw a young man like a king’s son, having with him a tall and beautiful lady, whose blue eyes shone like stars.

Who acts: boy, one · What happens: feel, touch, turn, see, have, shine · To what, where: boy, young man, tall lady, blue eyes

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, one), 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	3 felt	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	det
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 touch	nsubj
6	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 shoulder	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoulder	det
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touch	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turned	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turned	nsubj
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	25 son	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 son	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 king	case
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 having	punct
27	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 saw	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 having	obl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 lady	det
31	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lady	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 beautiful	cc
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tall	conj
34	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 having	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 eyes	punct
36	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	38 eyes	nmod:poss
37	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 eyes	amod
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lady	appos
39	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 eyes	acl
40	like	like	ADP	_	41 stars	case
41	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 shone	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	boy		then		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	touch	present	some one	boy		on the shoulder	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer on shoulder=Theme
3	turn	past	boy				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past		a young man		like a king's son	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	have	gerund		a tall lady		with boy	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient
6	shine	participle		a tall lady's blue eyes not said here		like stars	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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