The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 21
Then Stan understood, and when a man once understands and has his eyes opened it is no longer well with him.
Who acts: Stan, man, eyes, nonsense · What happens: understand, have, open, be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan, man, eyes, nonsense), 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 understood | advmod |
| 2 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 understands | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 understands | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 understands | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 understands | nsubj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 understands | advmod |
| 10 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 understood | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 has | cc |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 understands | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 has | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 him | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 him | cop |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 well | advmod |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 him | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | Stan | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | understand | present | a man | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a man not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | open | past | man's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | nonsense | with man; well property | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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