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The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 81

Stan saw her eyes shining like lamps from afar, and when they entered the house they beheld a huge kettle standing on the fire, filled with milk.

Who acts: Stan, eyes, house, huge kettle · What happens: see, shine, enter, behold, stand, fill · To what, where: eyes, huge kettle, fire

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan, eyes, house, huge kettle), 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

nsubjnmod:possobjaclcaseoblcasenmodpunctccadvmodnsubjconjdetnsubjnsubjccompdetamodobjaclcasedetoblpunctconjcaseoblpunctrootStanPROPNsawVERBherPRONeyesNOUNshiningVERBlikeADPlampsNOUNfromADPafarADJ,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVtheyPRONenteredVERBtheDEThouseNOUNtheyPRONbeheldVERBaDEThugeADJkettleNOUNstandingVERBonADPtheDETfireNOUN,PUNCTfilledVERBwithADPmilkNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1StanStanPROPNNumber=Sing2 sawnsubj
2sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 eyesnmod:poss
4eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur2 sawobj
5shiningshineVERBVerbForm=Ger4 eyesacl
6likelikeADP_7 lampscase
7lampslampNOUNNumber=Plur5 shiningobl
8fromfromADP_9 afarcase
9afarafarADJDegree=Pos7 lampsnmod
10,,PUNCT_14 enteredpunct
11andandCCONJ_14 enteredcc
12whenwhenADVPronType=Int14 enteredadvmod
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 enterednsubj
14enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sawconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 housedet
16househouseNOUNNumber=Sing18 beheldnsubj
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 beheldnsubj
18beheldbeholdVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 enteredccomp
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 kettledet
20hugehugeADJDegree=Pos21 kettleamod
21kettlekettleNOUNNumber=Sing18 beheldobj
22standingstandVERBVerbForm=Ger21 kettleacl
23ononADP_25 firecase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 firedet
25firefireNOUNNumber=Sing22 standingobl
26,,PUNCT_27 filledpunct
27filledfillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 beheldconj
28withwithADP_29 milkcase
29milkmilkNOUNNumber=Sing27 filledobl
30..PUNCT_2 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastStanmother's eyesvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
2shinegerundmother's eyes not said herelike lamps from afarvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3enterpasteyes = eyetree rules
4beholdpastthe housea huge kettlevn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kettle=Stimulus
5standgerunda huge kettle not said herethe firevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fire=Location
6fillparticiplethe house not said herewith milkvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with milk=Instrument

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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