The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 52

‘Nothing is likely to escape her eyes, certainly not a young man, said the other bird.

Who acts: Nothing, young man · What happens: be, escape, say · To what, where: eyes, other bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, young man), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 escape	mark
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 escape	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
10	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	14 man	advmod
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 man	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bird	amod
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing		likely property	tree rules
2	escape	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here	maiden's eyes		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	a young man	the other bird		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic

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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