More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 142
And the nearer they came the brighter the sheen of it, till she had to shade her eyes from the light of it.
Who acts: stairs, Kerplash · What happens: come, have, shade, light · To what, where: brighter sheen, eyes, sheen
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stairs, Kerplash), 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 | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nearer | det |
| 3 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sheen | det |
| 7 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 sheen | amod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sheen | det |
| 9 | sheen | sheen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sheen | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 shade | mark |
| 17 | shade | shade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shade | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 light | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 light | det |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shade | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 light | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | stairs = stair | the brighter sheen of sheen | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sheen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Kerplash | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shade | to-infinitive | Kerplash not said here | Kerplash's eyes | from the light of sheen | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary from light=Theme | |||
| 4 | light | sheen | nom light «phenomenon 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: «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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