The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 28
They were beautiful green eyes, not round like those of a cat, but long and almond-shaped, and they shone with a strange light, and the golden hair which floated round them seemed all the brighter for their lustre.
Who acts: people, golden hair · What happens: be, shape, shine, float, seem · To what, where: beautiful green 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 (people, golden hair), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eyes | cop |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 those | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 those | advmod |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 those | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 those | case |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 eyes | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cat | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cat | det |
| 13 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 those | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 long | cc |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 those | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shaped | cc |
| 18 | almond | almond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shaped | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 almond | punct |
| 20 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 long | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shone | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shone | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 shone | nsubj |
| 24 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 those | acl:relcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 light | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 light | det |
| 27 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 light | amod |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shone | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seemed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 seemed | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hair | det |
| 32 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hair | amod |
| 33 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 seemed | nsubj |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 floated | nsubj |
| 35 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 hair | acl:relcl |
| 36 | round | round | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 floated | obl |
| 38 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shone | conj |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 brighter | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 brighter | det |
| 41 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 seemed | xcomp |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 lustre | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 lustre | nmod:poss |
| 44 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 brighter | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | people | beautiful green eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shape | participle | people not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | shine | past | people | with a strange light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme | ||||
| 4 | float | past | the golden hair | round people | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | the golden hair | bright property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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 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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