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title: Much is hidden from the eyes of men, because did they know everythin… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Much is hidden from the eyes of men, because did they know everything their hearts would no longer be at peace. Who acts: eyes, everything. 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.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 7

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Much is hidden from the eyes of men, because did they know everything their hearts would no longer be at peace.

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**Who acts:** eyes, everything · **What happens:** hide, know, be · **To what, where:** Much, eyes, peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (eyes, everything), 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:pg641:34:7
# text = Much is hidden from the eyes of men, because did they know everything their hearts would no longer be at peace.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present · passive |  | Much |  | the eyes of men |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from eye=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **know** | past · do-support | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | would | everything |  |  | peace |  | long *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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