--- title: Once more he strained his eyes to see if there was no place in which… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Once more he strained his eyes to see if there was no place in which he could take shelter, and this time he caught sight of a small chapel in a little clearing. Who acts: youth, place. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/172/) [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 Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/) / 172 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 172 Once more he strained his eyes to see if there was no place in which he could take shelter, and this time he caught sight of a small chapel in a little clearing. **Who acts:** youth, place · **What happens:** strain, see, be, take, catch, sight · **To what, where:** eyes, shelter, place, sight, little clearing, small chapel This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, place), 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:pg641:4:172 # text = Once more he strained his eyes to see if there was no place in which he could take shelter, and this time he caught sight of a small chapel in a little clearing. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ _ 2 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 strained strain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obl _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 chapel chapel NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 clearing clearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strain** | past | youth | youth's eyes | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no place | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | could | youth | shelter | | no place | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in which=Location | | 5 | **catch** | past | youth | sight of a small chapel | | a little clearing | time | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 6 | **sight** | | | a small chapel | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/171/) - next →: [sentence 173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/173/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/)