More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 60

Before her all was dark--dark but for the glimmer of the stars in the pools, and the light that came from her own white feet, stealing out of her black cloak.

Who acts: all, light, stars · What happens: be, come, steal, glimmer · To what, where: own white feet, black cloak

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, light, stars), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	ADP	_	2 her	case
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dark	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 dark	punct
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dark	conj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 glimmer	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 glimmer	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 glimmer	det
11	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 stars	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stars	det
14	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 glimmer	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pools	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pools	det
17	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stars	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 light	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 light	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 light	det
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	conj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 light	acl:relcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	28 feet	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feet	amod
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feet	amod
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stealing	punct
30	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	35 cloak	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 cloak	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cloak	nmod:poss
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cloak	amod
35	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stealing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all		before goodwife	dark property	tree rules
2	be		all not said here				tree rules
3	come	past	the light	goodwife's own white feet			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from foot=Initial_Location
4	steal	gerund	the light not said here	goodwife's black cloak			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cloak=Location
5	glimmer		the stars in the pools				nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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