The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 74

The Magician sat on a throne, a sparkling crown on his head; his eyes blazed like a green fire, and instead of hands he had claws.

Who acts: Magician, eyes · What happens: sit, blaze, have · To what, where: throne, claws

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: who acts (Magician, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Magician	det
2	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 throne	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 throne	det
6	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crown	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crown	det
9	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crown	amod
10	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throne	appos
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crown	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 blazed	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blazed	nsubj
17	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 fire	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fire	det
20	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fire	amod
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blazed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	26 hands	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
29	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the Magician		a throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
2	blaze	past	magician's eyes			like a green fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	magician	claws		instead hands	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=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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