--- title: From that moment he felt he could not rest till these hidden secrets… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: From that moment he felt he could not rest till these hidden secrets were laid bare to him, and he spent his whole time wandering from one wizard to another, begging them to open his eyes, but found none to help him. Who acts: deal, none. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The You --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/) / 3 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 3 From that moment he felt he could not rest till these hidden secrets were laid bare to him, and he spent his whole time wandering from one wizard to another, begging them to open his eyes, but found none to help him. **Who acts:** deal, none · **What happens:** feel, not rest, lay, spend, wonder, beg · **To what, where:** hidden secrets, secrets, eyes, none, deal This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:34:3 # text = From that moment he felt he could not rest till these hidden secrets were laid bare to him, and he spent his whole time wandering from one wizard to another, begging them to open his eyes, but found none to help him. 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 10 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 12 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 16 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 wandering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 wizard wizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 begging beg VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 41 obj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | deal | | | | moment | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **rest** | could | deal | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lay** | past · passive | | this hidden secrets | | | | bare *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 4 | **spend** | past | deal | | | | time | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | deal *not said here* | | | | | from one wizard to another | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | deal *not said here* | | secrets *= secret* | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **open** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | deal *not said here* | deal's eyes | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 8 | **find** | past | deal *not said here* | none | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent none=Attribute clause=Theme | | 9 | **help** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | | deal | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/4/) - ↑ back to [The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/)