--- title: They were beautiful green eyes, not round like those of a cat, but l… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They were beautiful green eyes, not round like those of a cat, but long and almond-shaped, and they shone with a strange light, and the golden hair which floated round them seemed all the brighter for their lustre. Who acts: people, golden hair. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/28/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/) / 28 # The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 28 They were beautiful green eyes, not round like those of a cat, but long and almond-shaped, and they shone with a strange light, and the golden hair which floated round them seemed all the brighter for their lustre. **Who acts:** people, golden hair · **What happens:** be, shape, shine, float, seem · **To what, where:** beautiful green eyes This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, golden hair), 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:pg7277:22:28 # text = They were beautiful green eyes, not round like those of a cat, but long and almond-shaped, and they shone with a strange light, and the golden hair which floated round them seemed all the brighter for their lustre. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 8 round round ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 almond almond NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 round round ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 39 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 41 det:predet _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 xcomp _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 lustre lustre NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | people | beautiful green eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shape** | participle | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **shine** | past | people | | | | | with a strange light | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme | | 4 | **float** | past | the golden hair | | | | | round people | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory | | 5 | **seem** | past | the golden hair | | | | | bright *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/29/) - ↑ back to [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/)