The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 25

So he put his question for the second time, and had the same answer; but the left eye only wept now and then, while the right eye looked ten years younger.

Who acts: father, left eye, right eye · What happens: put, have, weep, look, question · To what, where: question, same answer

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, left eye, right eye), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 question	nmod:poss
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 answer	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 answer	amod
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wept	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 wept	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eye	det
19	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eye	amod
20	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wept	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 wept	advmod
22	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 wept	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 then	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 now	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 looked	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 eye	det
29	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eye	amod
30	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wept	conj
32	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 younger	obl:unmarked
34	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 looked	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	father	father's question	time		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal
2	have	past	father not said here	the same answer			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient
3	weep	past	the left eye		now		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	the right eye			young property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	question		father				nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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