The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 59
The hermit raised his eyes, which were bent on the ground, and said that he had not seen a living creature.
Who acts: hermit · What happens: raise, bend, say, not see · To what, where: eyes, ground, living creature · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hermit | det |
| 2 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bent | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bent | aux:pass |
| 9 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 seen | advmod |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 creature | det |
| 22 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 creature | amod |
| 23 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the hermit | hermit's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bend | past · passive | hermit's eyes | the ground | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on ground=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | not see | past · perfect | hermit | a living creature | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
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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