English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 27
These he knew by their fiery eyes, and knew that he was at last in the land of Fairy.
Who acts: These, Childe · What happens: know, be · To what, where: land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, Childe), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 last | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 last | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 last | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 last | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Fairy | case |
| 20 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 land | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | These | by things's fiery eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Childe | the land of Fairy | last property | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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