The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 85
Hundreds of years have passed since my eyes have rested on the face of a man, and I did not think to look on one again.”.
Who acts: I · What happens: pass, rest, not think, look · To what, where: Hundreds, eyes, face
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hundreds | nmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 rested | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rested | aux |
| 10 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passed | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rested | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 think | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 think | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 think | advmod |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 passed | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 look | mark |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 think | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 look | obl |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 look | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present · perfect · passive | Hundreds of years | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | rest | present · perfect · passive | my eyes | the face of a man | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on face=Location | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | again | on one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on one=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 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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