The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 93
He rubbed his eyes and put on his spectacles.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: rub, put · To what, where: eyes, spectacles
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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 rubbed | nsubj |
| 2 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rubbed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rubbed | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 spectacles | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 9 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | Emperor | Emperor's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | Emperor not said here | Emperor's spectacles | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination |
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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