The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 37
And once in the forest his doubts were set at rest, for he saw what no mortal eyes had ever seen before.
Who acts: noise · What happens: set, see, doubt · To what, where: doubts, forest, mortal eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 set | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 doubts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | doubts | doubt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | aux:pass |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 rest | case |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 seen | obj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 eyes | det |
| 18 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eyes | amod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 seen | advmod |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 seen | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | noise's doubts | the forest | at rest; once property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in forest=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | noise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | no mortal eyes | ever | before property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | doubt | noise | nom doubt «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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