The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 22
It always happens that if a person’s eyes are once opened they see a great deal more than they ever expected; and soon it struck the king that the members of his court had a way of disappearing one after the other without any reason.
Who acts: It, eyes, deal, members, way · What happens: happen, open, see, expect, strike, have · To what, where: eyes, great deal, king, way, one
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, eyes, deal, members), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 opened | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 person | case |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | aux:pass |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 opened | advmod |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 see | advcl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happens | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 deal | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deal | amod |
| 17 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 see | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 expected | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 expected | nsubj |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 expected | advmod |
| 22 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 more | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 struck | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 struck | cc |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 struck | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 struck | nsubj |
| 27 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happens | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 struck | obj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 had | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 members | det |
| 32 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 had | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 court | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 court | nmod:poss |
| 35 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 members | nmod |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 struck | advcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 way | det |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 had | obj |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 40 disappearing | mark |
| 40 | disappearing | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 way | acl |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 disappearing | obj |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 other | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 other | det |
| 44 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 one | nmod |
| 45 | without | without | ADP | _ | 47 reason | case |
| 46 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 reason | det |
| 47 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 disappearing | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | It | always property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a person's eyes | once property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | present | eyes = eye | a great deal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | expect | past | eyes = eye | ever | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | strike | past | deal | the king | soon property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent king=Instrument | |||
| 6 | have | past | the members of king's court | a way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 7 | disappear | gerund | a way not said here | one | after the other | without any reason | tree rules |
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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