The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 160
But two of her tears touched his eyes, and in a moment they became quite clear again, and he saw as well as he had ever done.
Who acts: two, eyes, Prince · What happens: touch, become, see, do · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, eyes, Prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 touched | cc |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tears | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 two | nmod |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 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 touched | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 touched | conj |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 clear | advmod |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 clear | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 became | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 22 saw | advmod |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 done | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 done | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 done | advmod |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 saw | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | two of voice's tears | Prince's eyes | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | eyes = eye | moment | clear property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | see | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | Prince | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 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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