The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 7
Much is hidden from the eyes of men, because did they know everything their hearts would no longer be at peace.
Who acts: eyes, everything · What happens: hide, know, be · To what, where: Much, eyes, peace · 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 (eyes, everything), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hidden | aux:pass |
| 3 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hidden | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eyes | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hidden | conj |
| 14 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 peace | nsubj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 everything | appos |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 peace | aux |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 peace | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 peace | cop |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 peace | case |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present · passive | Much | the eyes of men | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from eye=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | know | past · do-support | eyes = eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | would | everything | peace | long property | 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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