--- title: Stan saw her eyes shining like lamps from afar, and when they entere… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Stan saw her eyes shining like lamps from afar, and when they entered the house they beheld a huge kettle standing on the fire, filled with milk. Who acts: Stan, eyes, house, huge kettle. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/) / 81 # The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 81 Stan saw her eyes shining like lamps from afar, and when they entered the house they beheld a huge kettle standing on the fire, filled with milk. **Who acts:** Stan, eyes, house, huge kettle · **What happens:** see, shine, enter, behold, stand, fill · **To what, where:** eyes, huge kettle, fire This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan, eyes, house, huge kettle), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:13:81 # text = Stan saw her eyes shining like lamps from afar, and when they entered the house they beheld a huge kettle standing on the fire, filled with milk. 1 Stan Stan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 afar afar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Stan | mother's eyes | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | | 2 | **shine** | gerund | mother's eyes *not said here* | | | | | like lamps from afar | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **enter** | past | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **behold** | past | the house | a huge kettle | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kettle=Stimulus | | 5 | **stand** | gerund | a huge kettle *not said here* | | | the fire | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fire=Location | | 6 | **fill** | participle | the house *not said here* | | | | | with milk | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with milk=Instrument | 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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/82/) - ↑ back to [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/)