Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 16
The king’s eyes ran round the empty room and then they rested on the face in the picture.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: run, rest · To what, where: empty room, face
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 room | amod |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rested | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 rested | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rested | nsubj |
| 13 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 face | det |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rested | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 picture | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 picture | det |
| 19 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rested | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the king's eyes | the empty room | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round room=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | rest | past | eyes = eye | the face | then | in the picture | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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