The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 91
She looked with longing eyes at the sack, and at last she said, as her husband had done:
Who acts: Meantime · What happens: look, say, do · To what, where: last, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | longing | longing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sack | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sack | det |
| 8 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 done | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Meantime | with longing eyes; at the sack | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Meantime | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · passive | Meantime's husband | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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