The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 77
‘By the light of my eyes!’ exclaimed the emperor when Petru had put his question.
Who acts: light, Petru · What happens: exclaim, put, light, question · To what, where: emperor, Petru, eyes
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 (light, Petru), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 light | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 light | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 emperor | det |
| 12 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 put | advmod |
| 14 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 put | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 exclaimed | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 question | nmod:poss |
| 18 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the light of my eyes | the emperor | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | past · perfect · passive | Petru | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset question=Goal | |||||
| 3 | light | my eyes | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | question | Petru | 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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