English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 13
So she looked to see if the others were looking, and, when they were not noticing she stroked her own right eyelid with the ointment.
Who acts: Dame, others · What happens: look, see, not notice, stroke · To what, where: own right eyelid
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, others), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 looking | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looking | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looking | aux |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 see | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stroked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stroked | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 noticing | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 noticing | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 noticing | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 noticing | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 noticing | advmod |
| 18 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 stroked | advcl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stroked | nsubj |
| 20 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyelid | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyelid | amod |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyelid | amod |
| 24 | eyelid | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stroked | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 ointment | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ointment | det |
| 27 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stroked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Dame | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Dame not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | look a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | the others | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not notice | past · progressive | others = other | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | stroke | past | Dame | Dame's own right eyelid | with the ointment | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eyelid=Experiencer with ointment=Instrument |
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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