The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 35

Then Ferko buried his face in the ground till his eyes were damp with dewdrops, and in a moment he saw clearer than he had ever done in his life before.

Who acts: Ferko, eyes · What happens: bury, be, see, do · To what, where: face, ground, life

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 (Ferko, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 buried	advmod
2	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 buried	nsubj
3	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 damp	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 damp	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 damp	cop
13	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buried	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 dewdrops	case
15	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 damp	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buried	conj
23	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 saw	xcomp
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 done	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 done	advmod
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 saw	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 life	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 done	obl
32	before	before	ADV	_	28 done	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	Ferko	Ferko's face	the ground	then		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in ground=Destination
2	is	past	Ferko's eyes				with dewdrops; damp property	tree rules
3	see	past	Ferko			moment	clear property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	past · perfect	Ferko		Ferko's life	ever	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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