The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 54

Twenty of his Majesty’s surgeons will attend, to see the operation well performed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the balls of your eyes as you lie on the ground.

Who acts: Twenty, you · What happens: attend, see, perform, discharge, lie · To what, where: operation, sharp arrows, balls, ground

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twenty, you), 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	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 attend	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 surgeons	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Majesty	nmod:poss
4	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 surgeons	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Majesty	case
6	surgeons	surgeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Twenty	nmod
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 attend	aux
8	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 attend	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 operation	det
13	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 performed	advmod
15	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 operation	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 discharging	punct
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 discharging	mark
18	discharging	discharge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 see	advcl
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 sharp	advmod
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 arrows	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 pointed	punct
22	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sharp	conj
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 discharging	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 balls	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 balls	det
26	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 discharging	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 balls	nmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 lie	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 lie	nsubj
32	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 discharging	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 ground	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ground	det
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lie	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 attend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attend	future	Twenty of secretary's Majesty's surgeons				vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	see	to-infinitive	Twenty of secretary's Majesty's surgeons not said here	the operation			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer operation=Stimulus
3	perform	participle		the operation not said here		well property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	discharge	gerund	Twenty of secretary's Majesty's surgeons not said here	sharp arrows	the balls of your eyes		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme
5	lie	present	you		the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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