The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 44
Looking up at the Captain of the Guard with her beautiful eyes, she said gently:
Who acts: girl · What happens: look up, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (girl), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Looking | compound:prt |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Captain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Captain | det |
| 5 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Guard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Guard | det |
| 8 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Captain | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Looking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | gerund | girl not said here | with girl's beautiful eyes; at the Captain of the Guard | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at captain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | gently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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