The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a youth who was never happy unless he was prying into something that other people knew nothing about.

Who acts: youth, he, other people · What happens: live, not be, pry, know · To what, where: youth, something, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, he, other people), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 happy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 happy	cop
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 happy	advmod
12	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 youth	acl:relcl
13	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	16 prying	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prying	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 prying	aux
16	prying	pry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lived	advcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 something	case
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 prying	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 knew	obj
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 something	acl:relcl
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 knew	obj
24	about	about	ADV	_	22 knew	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a youth	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme youth=Location
2	not is	past	a youth				happy property	tree rules
3	pry a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	he		something			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	past	other people	nothing			about 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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