--- title: Then a silvery veil seemed to be drawn over the ladies, and they van… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then a silvery veil seemed to be drawn over the ladies, and they vanished from sight. Who acts: silvery veil, ladies. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/42/) [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/) / 42 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 42 Then a silvery veil seemed to be drawn over the ladies, and they vanished from sight. **Who acts:** silvery veil, ladies · **What happens:** seem, draw, vanish · **To what, where:** sight 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 (silvery veil, ladies), 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:pg641:34:42 # text = Then a silvery veil seemed to be drawn over the ladies, and they vanished from sight. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 silvery silvery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 veil veil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | a silvery veil | | | | then | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **draw** | to-infinitive · passive | a silvery veil *not said here* | | | | | over the ladies | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **vanish** | past | ladies *= lady* | | | sight | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial\_Location | 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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/43/) - ↑ back to [The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/)