The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 42
As the tailor stood gazing at her with a beating heart, the maiden suddenly opened her eyes, and started with delighted surprise.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: stand, gaze, open, start · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 tailor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gazing | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 10 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | compound |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gazing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 opened | advmod |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 opened | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 started | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 started | cc |
| 21 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 surprise | case |
| 23 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 surprise | amod |
| 24 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 started | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | as the tailor | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | at girl; with a beating heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | open | past | the maiden | girl's eyes | suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 4 | start | past | with delighted surprise | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with surprise=Subeventuality |
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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