The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 28
However, they soon returned, and one of them, who ventured so far as to get a full sight of my face, lifted up his hands in admiration.
Who acts: eyes, one · What happens: return, venture, get, lift up, sight · To what, where: full sight, hands, admiration, face
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 returned | advmod |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ventured | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ventured | cc |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 ventured | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ventured | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ventured | nsubj |
| 13 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 ventured | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 far | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sight | det |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sight | amod |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 face | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 face | nmod:poss |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sight | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lifted | punct |
| 26 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ventured | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 lifted | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lifted | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 admiration | case |
| 31 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lifted | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | eyes = eye | however, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | venture | past | one of eyes | far property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | one of eyes not said here | a full sight of my face | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lift up | past | one of eyes not said here | light's hands | admiration | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in admiration=Destination | |||
| 5 | sight | my face | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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