The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 85
The most splendid of these was guarded by three slaves, whose greedy eyes were caught by the glistening gold of the slippers.
Who acts: three slaves · What happens: guard, catch, glisten · To what, where: these, greedy eyes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three slaves), 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 | 3 splendid | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 splendid | advmod |
| 3 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 guarded | mark |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 guarded | aux:pass |
| 7 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 splendid | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 slaves | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 slaves | nummod |
| 10 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 guarded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 caught | aux:pass |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 slaves | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gold | det |
| 19 | glistening | glisten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 gold | amod |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 slippers | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 slippers | det |
| 23 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gold | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 splendid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past · passive | three slaves | these | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | greedy eyes | by the glistening gold of the slippers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glisten | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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