The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 185
At first he could not believe his eyes, and stared at the ladder of bones, and at the little finger on the top of it.
Who acts: husband · What happens: not believe, stare · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 believe | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 believe | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stared | cc |
| 11 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | parataxis |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 ladder | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ladder | det |
| 14 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stared | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bones | case |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ladder | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 finger | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 finger | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 finger | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 finger | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 finger | amod |
| 22 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stared | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 top | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 top | det |
| 25 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 finger | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 top | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | could | husband | husband's eyes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | at the little finger on the top of top; at the ladder of bones | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ladder=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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