The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 16
With sharpened eyes, he looked eagerly all round him, but could see nothing but a multitude of small hillocks, that lay motionless under the moonlight.
Who acts: king, that · What happens: sharpen, look, see, lay · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, that), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 eyes | case |
| 2 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 eyes | amod |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eyes | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 8 all | advmod |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 him | advmod |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 looked | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 multitude | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 multitude | det |
| 18 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nothing | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hillocks | case |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hillocks | amod |
| 21 | hillocks | hillock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 multitude | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lay | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 lay | nsubj |
| 24 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | parataxis |
| 25 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lay | xcomp |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 moonlight | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 moonlight | det |
| 28 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 motionless | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sharpen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | look | past | king | with sharpened eyes; round man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | could | king not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | that | motionless property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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