The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 42
Then a silvery veil seemed to be drawn over the ladies, and they vanished from sight.
Who acts: silvery veil, ladies · What happens: seem, draw, vanish · To what, where: sight
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 (silvery veil, ladies), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 veil | det |
| 3 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 veil | amod |
| 4 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drawn | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drawn | aux:pass |
| 8 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 ladies | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ladies | det |
| 11 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drawn | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vanished | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 vanished | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 vanished | nsubj |
| 15 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vanished | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | a silvery veil | then | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | draw | to-infinitive · passive | a silvery veil not said here | over the ladies | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | ladies = lady | sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location |
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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