The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 19

He started back in surprise and looked--and behold! the eyes of the child met his, and its lips, which were as red as raspberries, smiled at him!

Who acts: Marie, eyes, lips · What happens: start back, look, meet, be, smile · To what, where: surprise, lips

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marie, eyes, lips), 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 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 started	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 surprise	case
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 started	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 looked	cc
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 met	cc
10	behold	behold	INTJ	_	17 met	discourse
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 behold	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eyes	det
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 met	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eyes	nmod
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lips	nmod:poss
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lips	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lips	cc
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lips	nmod:poss
22	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 met	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 red	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 red	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 red	cop
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 red	advmod
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lips	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 raspberries	case
29	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 red	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 smiled	punct
31	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 met	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 smiled	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start back	past	Marie		surprise		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	look	past	Marie not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	meet	past	the eyes of the child	Marie's lips			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent
4	is	past	Marie's lips			as raspberries; red property	tree rules
5	smile	past	the eyes of the child not said here			at Marie	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 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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