The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 69
I asked him where he had left my brother, and how he had got the stag, whose great eyes were overflowing with tears.
Who acts: I, stranger, great eyes · What happens: ask, leave, get, overflow · To what, where: stranger, brother, stag
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 (I, stranger, great 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 left | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 asked | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 got | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stag | det |
| 17 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 overflowing | punct |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 overflowing | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 overflowing | aux |
| 23 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 got | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 tears | case |
| 25 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 overflowing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | I | stranger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | stranger | my brother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | stranger | the stag | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | overflow | past · progressive | great eyes | with tears | 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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