The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 39
Ugh! there sat the dog with eyes as big as saucers glaring at him.
Who acts: saucers · What happens: sit, glare · To what, where: dog
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saucers), 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 | Ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 4 sat | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ugh | punct |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | advmod |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sat | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 saucers | case |
| 12 | saucers | saucer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 big | obl |
| 13 | glaring | glare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 saucers | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 glaring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the dog | there | with eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | |||
| 2 | glare | gerund | saucers not said here | at soldier | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=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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