The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 21

He found that the Fairy had spoken the truth, and that he could see and hear everything, while he himself was unseen.

Who acts: youth · What happens: find, speak, see, hear, be · To what, where: Fairy, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 spoken	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spoken	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoken	aux
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoken	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hear	cc
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 see	conj
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 hear	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unseen	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 unseen	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 unseen	nsubj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	21 he	nmod:unmarked
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 unseen	cop
24	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 see	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	youth			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the Fairy		tree rules
3	see	could	youth			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	hear	infinitive	youth not said here	everything		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
5	is	past	youth		unseen 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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