More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 68
Mazed with fear he struggled on toward the flickering light that looked like help and safety.
Who acts: help, flickering light · What happens: maze, struggle on, flicker, look · To what, where: fear
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 (help, flickering light), 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 | Mazed | maze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 fear | case |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mazed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struggled | nsubj |
| 5 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fear | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 struggled | compound:prt |
| 7 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 light | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 light | det |
| 9 | flickering | flicker | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 light | amod |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struggled | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 light | acl:relcl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 safety | cc |
| 16 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maze | participle | with fear | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | struggle on | past | help | fear not said here | toward the flickering light | tree rules | |||
| 3 | flicker | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | look | past | the flickering light | like help and safety | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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