The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 33

He rubbed his eyes and looked all round, but nothing could he see of the foes of the past night, and the moor where he had run into such danger must be at least a mile away.

Who acts: noise, nothing, moor · What happens: rub, look, see, run, be · To what, where: eyes, such danger, mile, least

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 (noise, nothing, moor), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rubbed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 round	advmod
8	round	round	ADV	_	6 looked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 see	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rubbed	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 foes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foes	det
17	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 see	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
20	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 night	amod
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 foes	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 mile	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 mile	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moor	det
25	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mile	nsubj
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 run	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 run	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 run	aux
29	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 moor	acl
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 danger	case
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 danger	amod
32	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 run	obl
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 mile	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 mile	cop
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 least	case
36	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 mile	nmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 mile	det
38	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rubbed	parataxis
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 mile	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rub	past	noise	noise's eyes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	look	past	noise not said here			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	could	nothing			of the foes of the past night	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	run	past · perfect	noise			into such danger result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into danger=Result
5	is a	must	the moor	a mile	least	away 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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