The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 36

After the fatigues and terrors of the night, he lay still till mid-day, but he made up his mind he would go that very evening into the forest to try what the goats’ milk could really do for him, and if he would now be able to understand all that had been a mystery to him.

Who acts: noise, goats, that · What happens: lie, make up, go, try, do, be · To what, where: mind, forest, noise, mystery

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, goats, that), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 fatigues	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fatigues	det
3	fatigues	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lay	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 terrors	cc
5	terrors	terror	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fatigues	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 terrors	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fatigues	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	till	till	ADP	_	14 mid-day	case
14	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 made	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mind	nmod:poss
21	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	advcl
25	that	that	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 evening	advmod
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl:unmarked
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 forest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 forest	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 try	mark
32	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	advcl
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 do	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 goats	det
35	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 do	nsubj
36	’	's	PART	_	35 goats	case
37	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 goats	conj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 do	aux
39	really	really	ADV	_	40 do	advmod
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 try	ccomp
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 do	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 able	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 able	cc
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 able	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 able	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 able	aux
48	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 able	advmod
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 able	cop
50	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lay	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 understand	mark
52	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 able	xcomp
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 mystery	det:predet
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 mystery	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 mystery	aux
56	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	58 mystery	cop
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 mystery	det
58	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 understand	obj
59	to	to	ADP	_	60 him	case
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 understand	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	noise				after the fatigues and terrors of the night; till mid-day; still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make up	past	noise	noise's mind					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
3	go	would	noise			the forest	evening	that property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
4	try	to-infinitive	noise not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do	could	the goats and milk					for noise	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	is a condition, not said to happen	would	noise				now	able property	tree rules
7	understand	to-infinitive	noise not said here		noise				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past · perfect	that	all mystery					tree rules
9	mind		noise						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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