The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 104

The bolt hits whatever the eye sees.”

Who acts: bolt, eye · What happens: hit, see · To what, where: whatever

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bolt, eye), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bolt	det
2	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	nsubj
3	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sees	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eye	det
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sees	nsubj
7	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hits	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hits	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 hits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	the bolt						tree rules
2	see	present	the eye	whatever					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus

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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