Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 15
The single eye of Taric el Tuerto glowed like a coal of fire at this message.
Who acts: single eye · What happens: glow · To what, where: message
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single eye), 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 | 3 eye | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eye | amod |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glowed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 el | case |
| 5 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 el | compound |
| 6 | el | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eye | nmod |
| 7 | Tuerto | Tuerto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 el | flat |
| 8 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 coal | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coal | det |
| 11 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glowed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coal | nmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 message | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 message | det |
| 16 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glowed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 glowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | past | the single eye of Taric el | this message | like a coal of fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at message=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: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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