The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 87

All night the old man never closed an eye.

Who acts: old man · What happens: not close · To what, where: eye

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 closed	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 closed	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 closed	advmod
7	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eye	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 closed	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not close	past	the old man	a eye			night		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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