English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 32
“With the right eye to be sure,” said she, as proud as can be to find him out.
Who acts: Dame · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 eye | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eye | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eye | amod |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sure | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sure | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | cop |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 proud | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 proud | advmod |
| 15 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sure | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 find | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 proud | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 find | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | with the right eye; sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | can | find 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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