The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 64

In his head the black man had six eyes that were never all shut at once, but kept watch one after the other.

Who acts: black man, six eyes · What happens: have, not be, keep, watch · To what, where: six eyes, head, one

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black man, six 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 head	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eyes	nummod
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 shut	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shut	cop
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 shut	advmod
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 shut	advmod
14	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyes	acl:relcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 shut	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 kept	cc
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
20	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 kept	xcomp
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 watch	obj
22	after	after	ADP	_	24 other	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the black man	six eyes	Peronnik's head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	not is	past	six eyes				all, shut property	tree rules
3	keep	past	the black man not said here					tree rules
4	watch	infinitive	the black man not said here	one		after the other		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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