The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 83
Oh, what a blaze met his eyes! gold and precious stones were heaped up to the very lid, and lay dancing in he sunlight.
Who acts: blaze · What happens: meet, heap up, lie, dance · To what, where: eyes, gold, sunlight
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blaze), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 met | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 met | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blaze | det |
| 5 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 met | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 gold | punct |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heaped | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stones | cc |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stones | amod |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gold | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heaped | aux:pass |
| 15 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 met | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 heaped | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 lid | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lid | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 lid | advmod |
| 20 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heaped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lay | cc |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | conj |
| 24 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 lay | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 sunlight | case |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sunlight | nsubj |
| 27 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dancing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a blaze | blaze's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | heap up | past · passive | gold and precious stones | to the lid | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | a blaze not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | a blaze not said here | sunlight | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location |
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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