The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 27
And, besides, he felt the fascination of Ludovine’s eyes, which looked at him as a snake looks at a little bird.
Who acts: Kinglet, fascination, snake · What happens: feel, look, fascinate · To what, where: fascination, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kinglet, fascination, snake), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 felt | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
| 3 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 6 felt | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 besides | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fascination | det |
| 8 | fascination | fascination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Ludovine | case |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fascination | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fascination | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 looks | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 snake | det |
| 20 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looks | nsubj |
| 21 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | advcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 bird | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bird | amod |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looks | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Kinglet | the fascination of Ludovine's eyes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fascination=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the fascination of Ludovine's eyes | at Kinglet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | present | a snake | at a little bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fascinate | Ludovine's eyes | nom fascination «state transitive»: of=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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