The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 29
The Prince was not completely roused, but he opened his eyes a little and looked all the handsomer.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: not rouse, open, look · To what, where: Prince, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:1670): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 roused | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 roused | advmod |
| 5 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 6 roused | advmod |
| 6 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 opened | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 opened | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 roused | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 opened | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 handsomer | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 handsomer | det |
| 19 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rouse | past · passive | the Prince | completely property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Prince | Prince's eyes | a little obl:unmarked | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | past | Prince not said here | handsome property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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