The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 33
My right eye laughs when I look at my three sons, and see how strong and handsome you all are, and the other eye weeps because I fear that after I die you will not be able to keep the empire together, and to protect it from its enemies.
Who acts: right eye, I, you, other eye · What happens: laugh, look, see, be, weep, fear · To what, where: empire, eye · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (right eye, I, you, other 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eye | nmod:poss |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eye | amod |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughs | nsubj |
| 4 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughs | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sons | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sons | nummod |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughs | parataxis |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 strong | advmod |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 see | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 handsome | cc |
| 18 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 strong | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 strong | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 strong | cop |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 weeps | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 weeps | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eye | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eye | amod |
| 26 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 weeps | nsubj |
| 27 | weeps | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughs | conj |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 fear | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 fear | nsubj |
| 30 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 weeps | advcl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 die | mark |
| 32 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 34 die | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 die | nsubj |
| 34 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 fear | advcl |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 able | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 able | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 able | advmod |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 able | cop |
| 39 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 die | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 keep | mark |
| 41 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 able | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 empire | det |
| 43 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 keep | obj |
| 44 | together | together | ADV | _ | 41 keep | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 protect | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 protect | cc |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 protect | mark |
| 48 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 weeps | advcl |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 protect | obj |
| 50 | from | from | ADP | _ | 52 enemies | case |
| 51 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 52 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 protect | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | My right eye | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | present | I | at my three sons | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | you | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | weep | present | the other eye | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | not is | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | the empire | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Theme | |||
| 11 | protect | to-infinitive | the other eye not said here | eye | from eye's enemies | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from enemy=Theme |
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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