The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 10

As she spoke she glanced up, and there sat the little monkey, whose tears and gestures seemed to confirm her words.

Who acts: child, gestures · What happens: speak, glance up, sit, seem, confirm, word · To what, where: little monkey, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, gestures), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glanced	nsubj
5	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 glanced	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sat	advmod
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 monkey	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 monkey	amod
13	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tears	punct
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 tears	nmod:poss
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 monkey	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seemed	cc
18	gestures	gesture	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 confirm	mark
21	confirm	confirm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seemed	xcomp
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 words	nmod:poss
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 confirm	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	child			tree rules
2	glance up	past	child			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past		the little monkey and the little monkey and the little monkey's tears's tears	there	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location monkey=Theme
4	seem	past	gestures			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	confirm	to-infinitive	gestures not said here	child's words		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Topic
6	word		child			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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