The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 9
At this he looked up, and saw the most beautiful woman he had ever set eyes on.
Who acts: Irishman, beautiful woman · What happens: look up, see, set · To what, where: woman eyes, Irishman
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, beautiful woman), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 looked | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 beautiful | advmod |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eyes | compound |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 set | advmod |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 woman | acl:relcl |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 eyes | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | Irishman | at this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Irishman not said here | woman eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | set | past · perfect · passive | the beautiful woman not said here | Irishman | ever | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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