The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 3
From that moment he felt he could not rest till these hidden secrets were laid bare to him, and he spent his whole time wandering from one wizard to another, begging them to open his eyes, but found none to help him.
Who acts: deal, none · What happens: feel, not rest, lay, spend, wonder, beg · To what, where: hidden secrets, secrets, eyes, none, deal
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 (deal, none), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rest | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 rest | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 rest | advmod |
| 9 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 felt | ccomp |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 laid | mark |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 secrets | det |
| 12 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 secrets | amod |
| 13 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laid | aux:pass |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rest | advcl |
| 16 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 laid | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bare | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spent | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spent | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spent | nsubj |
| 22 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 time | nmod:poss |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spent | obj |
| 26 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 spent | advcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 wizard | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 wizard | nummod |
| 29 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wandering | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 another | case |
| 31 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 wizard | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 begging | punct |
| 33 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 wandering | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 begging | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 open | mark |
| 36 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 begging | xcomp |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 open | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 found | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 found | cc |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 42 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 41 found | obj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 help | mark |
| 44 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 found | xcomp |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 help | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | deal | moment | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not rest | could | deal | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | past · passive | this hidden secrets | bare property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | spend | past | deal | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | deal not said here | from one wizard to another | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | beg speech: request | gerund | deal not said here | secrets = secret | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | deal not said here | deal's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 8 | find | past | deal not said here | none | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent none=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 9 | help | to-infinitive | none not said here | deal | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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