More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 74
And he was in such haste to get away from the Quicks, and Bogles, and Things that dwelt there, that he scarce looked at the brave light that came from the beautiful shining yellow hair, streaming out over the black cloak and falling to the water at his feet.
Who acts: thing, Things, brave light · What happens: be, get away, dwell, look, come, shine · To what, where: such haste, beautiful shining yellow hair, black cloak, feet
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 (thing, Things, brave 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 haste | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 haste | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 haste | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 haste | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 haste | amod |
| 6 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 haste | acl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Quicks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Quicks | det |
| 12 | Quicks | Quick | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 away | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bogles | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Bogles | cc |
| 15 | Bogles | Bogle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Quicks | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Things | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Things | cc |
| 18 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 haste | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 dwelt | nsubj |
| 20 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Things | acl:relcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 dwelt | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 looked | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | scarce | scarce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dwelt | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 light | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 light | det |
| 29 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 light | amod |
| 30 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looked | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 light | acl:relcl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 hair | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hair | det |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hair | amod |
| 36 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 hair | amod |
| 37 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hair | amod |
| 38 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 streaming | punct |
| 40 | streaming | stream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 looked | advcl |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 streaming | compound:prt |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 45 cloak | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 cloak | det |
| 44 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 cloak | amod |
| 45 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 streaming | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 falling | cc |
| 47 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 streaming | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 water | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 water | det |
| 50 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 falling | obl |
| 51 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 feet | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 feet | nmod:poss |
| 53 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 falling | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 haste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thing | such haste and Things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get away | to-infinitive | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dwell | past | Things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | thing | at the brave light | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at light=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the brave light | the beautiful shining yellow hair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hair=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | stream out | gerund | thing not said here | the black cloak | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cloak=Location | ||||
| 8 | fall | gerund | thing not said here | thing's feet | to the water | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=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: «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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