The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 51
But Venus was joyful in her heart when she saw Petru’s eyes fixed upon her.
Who acts: Venus · What happens: be, see, fix · To what, where: heart, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Venus), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 joyful | cc |
| 2 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joyful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joyful | cop |
| 4 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joyful | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joyful | advcl |
| 11 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Petru | case |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eyes | acl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fixed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 joyful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Venus | Venus's heart | joyful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | Venus | Petru's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fix | participle | Petru's eyes not said here | upon Venus | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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