The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 5

One evening, as they sat by the fountain in the garden, the little monkey kept gazing at Zayda with such sad and loving eyes that she and her mother could not think what to make of it, and they were still more surprised when they saw big tears rolling down his cheeks.

Who acts: ladies, little monkey, Alphege, big tears · What happens: sit, keep, gaze, not think, make, be · To what, where: garden, big tears, cheeks · 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 (ladies, little monkey, Alphege, big tears), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sat	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fountain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fountain	det
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 monkey	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 monkey	amod
16	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kept	nsubj
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
18	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Zayda	case
20	Zayda	Zayda	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 gazing	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	26 eyes	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyes	amod
23	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyes	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 loving	cc
25	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sad	conj
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gazing	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 think	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 think	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mother	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 she	conj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 think	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 think	advmod
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 gazing	advcl
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 make	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 make	mark
37	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 think	ccomp
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 make	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 surprised	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 surprised	cc
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 surprised	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 surprised	cop
44	still	still	ADV	_	46 surprised	advmod
45	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	46 surprised	advmod
46	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 kept	advcl
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 saw	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 saw	nsubj
49	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 surprised	ccomp
50	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 tears	amod
51	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 saw	obj
52	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 tears	acl
53	down	down	ADP	_	52 rolling	compound:prt
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 cheeks	nmod:poss
55	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 rolling	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	ladies = lady		the garden	evening	by the fountain	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fountain=Location
2	keep	past	the little monkey					tree rules
3	gaze	gerund	the little monkey not said here				with such sad eyes; at Zayda	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at zayda=Theme
4	not think speech: other	could	Alphege					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive					of garden	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product
6	is	past	ladies = lady			still	surprised property	tree rules
7	see	past	ladies = lady	big tears				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus
8	roll down	gerund	big tears not said here	monkey's cheeks				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=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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