The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 87
His eyes shone as yours do; he had lovely curling hair, but quite poor clothes.’
Who acts: eyes, yours, figure · What happens: shine, do, have, curl · To what, where: lovely curling hair
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, yours, figure), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 5 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shone | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shone | conj |
| 10 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hair | amod |
| 11 | curling | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 hair | amod |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clothes | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 clothes | cc |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 poor | advmod |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clothes | amod |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 had | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | figure's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | present | yours | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | figure | lovely curling hair | poor clothes obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||
| 4 | curl | gerund | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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