The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 38
On hearing this story Serpentine grew very sad, and her lovely eyes filled with tears.
Who acts: lovely eyes · What happens: hear, grow, fill · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 grew | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | Serpentine | Serpentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | appos |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 sad | advmod |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 filled | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 grew | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 tears | case |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fill | participle | Serpentine's lovely eyes | with tears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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