The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 5

No man ever saw her, and she never saw even the fields and the sea, but only the sky and the sun, for there was a wide open window in the roof of the house of brass.

Who acts: man, prophet · What happens: see, not see, be · To what, where: prophet, fields, wide open window, roof

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, prophet), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 saw	advmod
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 saw	advmod
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 fields	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fields	det
13	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sea	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fields	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sky	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 sky	cc
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 sky	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sky	det
21	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sun	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sky	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 window	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 was	mark
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 window	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 window	det
30	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 window	amod
31	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 window	amod
32	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 roof	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 roof	det
35	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 window	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 house	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 house	det
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 roof	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 brass	case
40	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 house	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	no man	prophet		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	not see	past	prophet	the fields and the sea			the sky and the sun obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus
3	is a	past		a wide open window	the roof of the house of brass			tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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