The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 69

But when they saw how handsome he really was their hearts were filled with envy and anger, so that their eyes were blinded, and they fell over into the sea and were drowned.

Who acts: rags, eyes · What happens: see, fill, blind, fall over, drown · To what, where: hair, eyes, sea

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rags, eyes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 handsome	advmod
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 filled	nsubj
8	really	really	ADV	_	13 filled	advmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 filled	aux:pass
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hearts	nmod:poss
11	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 filled	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 filled	aux:pass
13	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 handsome	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 envy	case
15	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filled	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 anger	cc
17	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 envy	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 blinded	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	24 blinded	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 blinded	mark
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 blinded	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 blinded	aux:pass
24	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
29	over	over	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sea	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 drowned	cc
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 drowned	aux:pass
35	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 fell	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	rags = rag		handsome property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fill	past · passive		hair	with envy and anger	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument
3	blind	past · passive		rags's eyes		tree rules
4	fall over	past	eyes = eye		into the sea result; over property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result
5	drown	past · passive	eyes = eye not said here			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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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