The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 24

Night came on, and the poor blind youth had no eyes to close, and could only crawl along the ground, not knowing in the least where he was going.

Who acts: Night, poor blind youth, Ferko · What happens: come on, have, close, crawl, not know, go · To what, where: eyes, ground

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Night, poor blind youth, Ferko), 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	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 youth	amod
8	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 youth	amod
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 eyes	det
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 close	mark
14	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 eyes	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crawl	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crawl	cc
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 crawl	aux
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 crawl	advmod
19	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
20	along	along	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crawl	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knowing	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 knowing	advmod
25	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 crawl	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 where	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 where	det
28	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 where	advmod
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 knowing	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 going	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 going	aux
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 where	advcl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come on	past	Night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the poor blind youth	no eyes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	close	to-infinitive	the poor blind youth not said here	no eyes not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	crawl	could	Night not said here		the ground	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ground=Trajectory
5	not know	gerund	Night not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	go	past · progressive	Ferko			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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