The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 78
The squire opened his eyes at this announcement; and came out to see if it was really true.
Who acts: squire, job · What happens: open, come out, see, be · To what, where: eyes, announcement
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, job), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 squire | det |
| 2 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 announcement | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 announcement | det |
| 8 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | advcl |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 true | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 true | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 true | cop |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 true | advmod |
| 19 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 see | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the squire | squire's eyes | this announcement | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at announcement=Location | |||
| 2 | come out | past | the squire not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the squire not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | job | true property | 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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