The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 69
Still she was alive; her eyes glittered like two clear stars, but there was no rest or peace in them.
Who acts: grandmother, eyes, rest · What happens: be, glitter
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, eyes, rest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:822): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 alive | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 alive | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alive | cop |
| 4 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 glittered | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glittered | nsubj |
| 8 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alive | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 stars | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 stars | nummod |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stars | amod |
| 12 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glittered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alive | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 peace | cc |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 was | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | grandmother | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | glitter | past | grandmother's eyes | like two clear stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no rest or peace | there | in stars = star | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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