The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 2
Their mother detested her eldest son, and had only eyes for the youngest.
Who acts: mother · What happens: detest, have · To what, where: eldest son, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 detested | nsubj |
| 3 | detested | detest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 detested | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 detested | conj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 eyes | advmod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 youngest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youngest | det |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 had | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 detested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detest | past | Their mother | mother's eldest son | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Their mother not said here | eyes | for the youngest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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