The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 243
Then the eyes of the cruel Queen sparkled with glee, and laughing aloud she cried:
Who acts: eyes, Queen · What happens: sparkle, laugh, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Queen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sparkled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sparkled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Queen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Queen | amod |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 8 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cried | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 glee | case |
| 10 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sparkled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cried | cc |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 cried | csubj |
| 14 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 13 laughing | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | participle | the eyes of the cruel Queen | then | with glee | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with glee=Theme | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | aloud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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