The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 105

He thought each was most beautiful, but that was because of the splinter of glass in his eye.

Who acts: Kay, each, that · What happens: think, be · To what, where: eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, each, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 beautiful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beautiful	cop
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 beautiful	advmod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 splinter	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 splinter	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 splinter	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 splinter	cop
11	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 splinter	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 because	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 splinter	det
14	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 glass	case
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 splinter	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 eye	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eye	nmod:poss
19	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 splinter	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Kay			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	each		beautiful property	tree rules
3	is	past	that	Kay's eye	because the splinter; of glass	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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