The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 6

He could only see with a raven’s eyes, and feel as a raven feels; and a nest of field-mice at the foot of the tree interested him far more than the sport of the maidens.

Who acts: brook, raven, maidens · What happens: see, feel, sport · To what, where: nest, foot

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brook, raven, maidens), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 raven	det
7	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eyes	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 raven	case
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feel	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feel	cc
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 feels	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 raven	det
15	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feels	nsubj
16	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	ccomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 nest	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 nest	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 nest	det
20	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 mice	case
22	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mice	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 field	punct
24	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 nest	nmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 foot	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 foot	det
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 tree	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 foot	nmod
31	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tree	amod
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 interested	nsubj
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 interested	conj
35	than	than	ADP	_	37 sport	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sport	det
37	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 more	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 maidens	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 maidens	det
40	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sport	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	brook	a nest of field mice	the foot of the tree	with a raven's eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	feel	infinitive	brook not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	feel	present	a raven				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	sport		the maidens				nom sport «act intransitive»: of=agent

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.

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