The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 55

Suddenly his eyes fell on the figure of an old man, which seemed familiar to him, though he could not tell when or where he had seen it.

Who acts: eyes, old man, Tiidu · What happens: fall, seem, not tell, see, figure · To what, where: figure, old man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, old man, Tiidu), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 figure	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 figure	det
7	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 figure	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	acl:relcl
15	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seemed	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 familiar	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 tell	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 tell	advmod
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fell	conj
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 seen	mark
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 seen	cc
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 seen	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seen	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 tell	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seen	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Tiidu's eyes		the figure of a old man	suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on figure=Location
2	seem	past	a old man			familiar property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	could	Tiidu				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past · perfect	Tiidu	figure			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	figure			a old man			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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