The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 47

And that was the way he learned that the wizard had spoken truly when he said, ‘Blindness is man’s highest good.’

Who acts: that, sun · What happens: be, learn, speak, say · To what, where: way, wizard · 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 (that, sun), 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	_	5 way	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 way	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learned	obl:unmarked
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 learned	nsubj
7	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 spoken	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wizard	det
10	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoken	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spoken	aux
12	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	advcl
13	truly	truly	ADV	_	12 spoken	advmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 said	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 learned	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
19	Blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 man	compound
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 man	cop
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 man	case
23	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 man	conj
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 highest	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 learned	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	the way		tree rules
2	learn	past	sun			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the wizard	truly property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	sun			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present			's Blindness man	tree rules
6	be					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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