The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 53
‘He had eyes like glittering stars, and a beard like foaming water.’
Who acts: story, beard · What happens: have, glitter, foam · To what, where: eyes, water
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, beard), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 stars | case |
| 6 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stars | amod |
| 7 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eyes | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beard | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 beard | det |
| 11 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 foaming | mark |
| 13 | foaming | foam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 beard | acl |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 foaming | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | story | eyes | like glittering stars; a beard obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | foam | gerund | a beard not said here | water | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme |
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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