Indian Fairy Tales, VIII. Loving Laili., sentence 12
_--The white skin and blue eyes of Prince Majnun deserve attention.
Who acts: skin eyes · What happens: deserve · To what, where: attention
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. Loving Laili.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin eyes), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 eyes | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 skin | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skin | amod |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | compound |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 blue | cc |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skin | conj |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 deserve | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Majnun | case |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deserve | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 deserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present | skin eyes of Majnun Prince | attention | tree rules |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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