English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 36
And with that he struck her on her right eye, and she couldn't see him any more; and, what was worse, she was blind on the right side from that hour till the day of her death.
Who acts: Gooden, woman · What happens: strike, not see, be, die · To what, where: woman, Gooden, right side
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 (Gooden, woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 struck | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 struck | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 struck | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 eye | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eye | nmod:poss |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eye | amod |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 struck | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | any | any | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 see | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 blind | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 blind | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 worse | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 worse | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 worse | cop |
| 25 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 blind | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 blind | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 blind | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 blind | cop |
| 29 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 struck | parataxis |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 side | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 side | det |
| 32 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 side | amod |
| 33 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blind | obl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 hour | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 hour | det |
| 36 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 37 | till | till | ADP | _ | 39 day | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 death | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 death | nmod:poss |
| 42 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 day | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Gooden | woman | day; hour | on woman's right eye | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on eye=Patient | ||
| 2 | not see | could | woman | Gooden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | woman | the right side | blind property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | die | woman | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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