Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 53
On opening the casket, and regarding its contents, the eyes of the tyrant sparkled with malignant satisfaction.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: open, regard, sparkle · To what, where: casket
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 opening | mark |
| 2 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sparkled | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 casket | det |
| 4 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opening | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 regarding | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 regarding | cc |
| 7 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 contents | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 contents | nmod:poss |
| 9 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 opening | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 opening | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sparkled | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tyrant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tyrant | det |
| 15 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 satisfaction | case |
| 18 | malignant | malignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 satisfaction | amod |
| 19 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sparkled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sparkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | the eyes of the tyrant not said here | the casket | regard casket's contents | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location casket=Theme | |||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sparkle | participle | the eyes of the tyrant | with malignant satisfaction | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with satisfaction=Theme |
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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