Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 75

He could see all but none could see him.

Who acts: teller, none · What happens: see · To what, where: all, teller

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teller, none), 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	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 see	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
6	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 see	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	teller	all					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
2	see	could	none	teller					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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