The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 50

I do not know why Petru devoured her so with his eyes, unless it was to count the wrinkles on her face; but if so he would have had to live seven lives, and each life seven times the length of an ordinary one, before he could have reckoned them up.

Who acts: I, Petru, wickedness · What happens: not know, devour, be, have, live, reckon up · To what, where: goddess, seven lives, life

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Petru, wickedness), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 devoured	advmod
6	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 devoured	nsubj
7	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 devoured	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	7 devoured	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 devoured	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 count	punct
14	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	18 count	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 count	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 count	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 count	mark
18	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wrinkles	det
20	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 count	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 face	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 face	nmod:poss
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wrinkles	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 so	mark
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 had	advcl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	aux
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 count	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 live	mark
33	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 lives	nummod
35	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 live	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 reckoned	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 reckoned	cc
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	39 life	det
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 reckoned	nsubj:pass
40	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 times	nummod
41	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 reckoned	obl:unmarked
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 length	det
43	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 reckoned	nsubj:pass
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 one	case
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 one	det
46	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 one	amod
47	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 length	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 reckoned	punct
49	before	before	SCONJ	_	53 reckoned	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 reckoned	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 reckoned	aux
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 reckoned	aux
53	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 know	ccomp
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 reckoned	obj
55	up	up	ADP	_	53 reckoned	compound:prt
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	devour	past	Petru	goddess		with Petru's eyes	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	wickedness			count property	tree rules
4	have	would · perfect	Petru				tree rules
5	live	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	seven lives			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
6	reckon up	could · perfect · passive		each life	time		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme they=Attribute

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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