More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 80
So out went the blessed light and back came the darkness, with all its Evil Things, with a screech and a howl.
Who acts: back · What happens: go, come · To what, where: blessed light
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 (back), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 5 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 light | amod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 darkness | det |
| 11 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Things | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Things | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 Things | det:predet |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Things | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Things | amod |
| 17 | Things | Thing | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 screech | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 screech | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 screech | det |
| 21 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 howl | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 howl | det |
| 24 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 screech | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the blessed light | out property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | back | with darkness's Evil Things; with a screech and a howl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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