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title: He rubbed his eyes and looked all round, but nothing could he see of… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He rubbed his eyes and looked all round, but nothing could he see of the foes of the past night, and the moor where he had run into such danger must be at least a mile away. Who acts: noise, nothing, moor. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Op
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 33

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He rubbed his eyes and looked all round, but nothing could he see of the foes of the past night, and the moor where he had run into such danger must be at least a mile away.

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**Who acts:** noise, nothing, moor · **What happens:** rub, look, see, run, be · **To what, where:** eyes, such danger, mile, least

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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 (noise, nothing, moor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg641:34:33
# text = He rubbed his eyes and looked all round, but nothing could he see of the foes of the past night, and the moor where he had run into such danger must be at least a mile away.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	nmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
39	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | noise | noise's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | could | nothing |  |  |  |  | of the foes of the past night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **run** | past · perfect | noise |  |  |  |  | into such danger *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into danger=Result |
| 5 | **is a** | must | the moor | a mile |  | least |  | away *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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