The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 74
Instantly the lady opened her lustrous eyes, and saw the Eagle hovering near.
Who acts: lady, Eagle · What happens: open, see, hover · To what, where: lustrous eyes, Eagle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (lady, Eagle), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lustrous | lustrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 opened | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Eagle | det |
| 12 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | hovering | hover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 14 | near | near | ADV | _ | 13 hovering | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the lady | lady's lustrous eyes | instantly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the lady not said here | the Eagle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hover | gerund | the Eagle not said here | near property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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 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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