The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 86
He looked at his ring, and when he saw that it sparkled as brightly as ever he went straight on through the forest.
Who acts: Prince, hare · What happens: look, see, sparkle, go · To what, where: forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hare), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 ring | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ring | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 sparkled | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sparkled | nsubj |
| 13 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 brightly | advmod |
| 15 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 13 sparkled | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 went | mark |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 went | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sparkled | advcl |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 21 on | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Prince | at Prince's ring | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sparkle | past | hare | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Prince | the forest | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location |
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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