The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 20
She looked up, and when she saw the King’s son gazing in at her, she blushed red all over, cast down her eyes and span on.
Who acts: girl, son · What happens: look up, see, gaze, blush, cast down, span on · To what, where: son, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, son), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 13 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 gazing | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gazing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blushed | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 blushed | nsubj |
| 19 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 20 | red | red | ADV | _ | 19 blushed | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 over | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 blushed | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cast | punct |
| 24 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 blushed | parataxis |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cast | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 span | cc |
| 29 | span | span | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cast | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 span | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | girl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | girl | the King's son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | the King's son not said here | at girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blush | past | girl | over, red property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | cast down | participle | girl's eyes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product | |||||
| 6 | span on | present | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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