The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 118
His daughters were all arranged in a straight row in front of him, dressed exactly alike, and with their eyes bent on the ground.
What happens: arrange, dress, bend · To what, where: daughters, straight row, eyes, ground
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arranged | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 arranged | advmod |
| 5 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 row | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 row | det |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 row | amod |
| 9 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arranged | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 row | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 front | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dressed | punct |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arranged | advcl |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 17 alike | advmod |
| 17 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dressed | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 eyes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 eyes | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arranged | obl |
| 23 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 eyes | acl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · passive | magician's daughters | a straight row in front of magician | with rows's eyes; all property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in row=Destination | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | alike property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bend | participle | rows's eyes not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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