The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 201
The monster looked eagerly about him, and his eyes sparkled with joy when he saw the cask.
Who acts: monster, eyes, man · What happens: look, sparkle, see · To what, where: cask
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster, eyes, man), 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 monster | det |
| 2 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sparkled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sparkled | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sparkled | nsubj |
| 11 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sparkled | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sparkled | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cask | det |
| 18 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the monster | about man; eagerly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | participle | man's eyes | with joy | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | man | the cask | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cask=Stimulus |
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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