The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 81

But though there was more than one “Njal” amongst them, Helga’s eyes seemed always turned another way.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: one, way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 one	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 was	mark
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	7 one	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Njal	punct
9	Njal	Njal	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 one	appos
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Njal	punct
11	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 turned	punct
14	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 eyes	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Helga	case
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 turned	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 turned	aux
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 turned	advmod
19	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 one	parataxis
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turned	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		one				amongst men = man	tree rules
2	turn	past	Helga's eyes	another way				always property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/81/