The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 2
They rowed a little further out, and he asked again, ‘Are my eyes not green yet?’
Who acts: They, he · What happens: row, ask, be · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, he), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rowed | nsubj |
| 2 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 further | advmod |
| 5 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 rowed | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 further | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rowed | conj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 asked | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyes | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyes | punct |
| 14 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 eyes | cop |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | obj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 green | advmod |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 asked | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 rowed | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 rowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past | They | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | he | again; yet | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | my eyes | 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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