The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 38
When she entered the ball-room all eyes were turned on her, and everyone marvelled at her beauty, but no one knew who she was.
Who acts: Helena, everyone, one · What happens: enter, turn, marvell, know, be · To what, where: ball room, eyes, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena, everyone, one), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 marvelled | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ball | punct |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 eyes | det |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | aux:pass |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marvelled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marvelled | cc |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 marvelled | nsubj |
| 17 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 beauty | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marvelled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 knew | cc |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 marvelled | parataxis |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 knew | ccomp |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 who | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 who | cop |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 marvelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Helena | the ball room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | all eyes | on Helena | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marvell | past | everyone | Helena's beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | Helena | tree rules |
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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