The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 44

He felt that day to be endless, and counted the minutes till night should come, and he might return to the forest.

Who acts: sun, minutes · What happens: feel, be, count, come, return

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 (sun, minutes), 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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl:unmarked
5	to	to	PART	_	7 endless	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 endless	cop
7	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 counted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 counted	cc
10	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 minutes	det
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
13	till	till	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 minutes	nmod
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 counted	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 return	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 return	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 return	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 return	aux
21	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 return	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	sun	day		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive	sun not said here		endless property	tree rules
3	count	past	sun not said here			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
4	come	should	the minutes till night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	return	might	sun		to the forest result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result

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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