The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 72
The girl’s eyes filled with tears, and she stood gazing at him.
Who acts: eyes, girl · What happens: fill, stand, gaze
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (eyes, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tears | case |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 filled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | conj |
| 12 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stood | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gazing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | the girl's eyes | with tears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | girl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | girl not said here | at father | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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