Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / The Violet Fairy Book / The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes… / 2

The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 2

After he had learned to understand the language of birds and beasts, he discovered accidentally that a great deal took place under cover of night which mortal eyes never saw.

Who acts: he, great deal, mortal eyes · What happens: learn, understand, discover, take, not see · To what, where: language, place, cover

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 (he, great deal, mortal 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

marknsubjauxmarkxcompdetobjcasenmodccconjpunctnsubjconjadvmodmarkdetamodnsubjadvclobjcaseoblcasenmodobjamodnsubjadvmodacl:relclpunctrootAfterSCONJhePRONhadAUXlearnedVERBtoPARTunderstandVERBtheDETlanguageNOUNofADPbirdsNOUNandCCONJbeastsNOUN,PUNCThePRONdiscoveredVERBaccidentallyADVthatSCONJaDETgreatADJdealNOUNtookVERBplaceNOUNunderADPcoverNOUNofADPnightNOUNwhichPRONmortalADJeyesNOUNneverADVsawVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_4 learnedmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 learnednsubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 learnedaux
4learnedlearnVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
5totoPART_6 understandmark
6understandunderstandVERBVerbForm=Inf4 learnedxcomp
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 languagedet
8languagelanguageNOUNNumber=Sing6 understandobj
9ofofADP_10 birdscase
10birdsbirdNOUNNumber=Plur8 languagenmod
11andandCCONJ_12 beastscc
12beastsbeastNOUNNumber=Plur10 birdsconj
13,,PUNCT_15 discoveredpunct
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 discoverednsubj
15discovereddiscoverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 learnedconj
16accidentallyaccidentallyADV_15 discoveredadvmod
17thatthatSCONJ_21 tookmark
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 dealdet
19greatgreatADJDegree=Pos20 dealamod
20dealdealNOUNNumber=Sing21 tooknsubj
21tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 discoveredadvcl
22placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing21 tookobj
23underunderADP_24 covercase
24covercoverNOUNNumber=Sing21 tookobl
25ofofADP_26 nightcase
26nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing24 covernmod
27whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel31 sawobj
28mortalmortalADJDegree=Pos29 eyesamod
29eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur31 sawnsubj
30neverneverADVPronType=Neg31 sawadvmod
31sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 coveracl:relcl
32..PUNCT_4 learnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1learnpast · perfecthevn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2understandto-infinitivehe not said herethe language of birds and beastsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
3discoverpastheaccidentally propertyvn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
4takepasta great dealplacecover of nightvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5not seepastmortal eyescover of nightvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/2/