Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 9
But turn thine eyes to another and more interesting scene.”
Who acts: you · What happens: turn · To what, where: eyes, interesting scene
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 turn | cc |
| 2 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 scene | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 scene | det |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 interesting | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 interesting | advmod |
| 9 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 scene | amod |
| 10 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turn | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turn | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | thine eyes | another interesting scene | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to scene=Trajectory |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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