The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 128

Sad and lonely do I live like any hermit within these walls, avoided by the world and a terror even to animals; the beauties of nature are hidden from me, for I am blind by day, and it is only when the moon sheds her pale light on this spot that the veil falls from my eyes and I can see.’

Who acts: I, nature, veil, wife · What happens: live, avoid, hide, be, fall, see · To what, where: walls, beauties, spot, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nature, veil, wife), 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	Sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 live	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lonely	cc
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sad	conj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 live	nsubj
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 hermit	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 hermit	det
9	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 walls	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 avoided	punct
14	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 walls	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 avoided	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 terror	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 terror	det
20	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 world	conj
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 animals	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 animals	case
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 avoided	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 hidden	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beauties	det
26	beauties	beauty	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hidden	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 nature	case
28	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beauties	nmod
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hidden	aux:pass
30	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 live	parataxis
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 hidden	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 blind	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 blind	case
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 blind	nsubj
36	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 blind	cop
37	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hidden	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 day	case
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 blind	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sheds	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sheds	cc
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 sheds	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 sheds	cop
44	only	only	ADV	_	48 sheds	advmod
45	when	when	SCONJ	_	48 sheds	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 moon	det
47	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sheds	nsubj
48	sheds	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 live	advcl
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 light	nmod:poss
50	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 light	amod
51	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sheds	obj
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 spot	case
53	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 spot	det
54	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sheds	obl
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 falls	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 veil	det
57	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 falls	nsubj
58	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 spot	acl:relcl
59	from	from	ADP	_	61 eyes	case
60	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 eyes	nmod:poss
61	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 falls	obl
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 see	cc
63	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 see	nsubj
64	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 see	aux
65	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 falls	conj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 live	punct
67	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · do-support	I				like any hermit; within this walls	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	avoid	participle		this walls not said here			by the world and a terror; to animals	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	hide	present · passive		the beauties of nature			from me	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from i=Beneficiary
4	is	present	I			day	blind property	tree rules
5	is	present	nature		this spot		shed property	tree rules
6	fall	present	the veil	this spot not said here	my eyes			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient spot=Extent from eye=Initial_State
7	see	can	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	light		wife					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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