More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 143

And as they came to the foot of it, she saw it was a broad bright road, sloping up and away into the sky, and at the far, far end of it she could see wee shining things dancing about.

Who acts: stairs, Kerplash, light, shining things · What happens: come, see, be, slope up, shine, dance · To what, where: foot, broad bright road, shining things, far far end · Speech: someone speaks here

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, light, shining things), 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	_	12 saw	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 foot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foot	det
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 foot	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 road	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 road	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 road	det
16	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 road	amod
17	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 road	amod
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sloping	punct
20	sloping	slope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saw	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 sloping	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 away	cc
23	away	away	ADV	_	20 sloping	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 sky	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sky	det
26	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 away	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 see	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 see	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	34 end	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 end	det
31	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 end	amod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 far	punct
33	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 end	amod
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 see	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 end	nmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 see	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 see	aux
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saw	conj
40	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shining	compound
41	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 things	amod
42	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 see	obj
43	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 things	acl
44	about	about	ADV	_	43 dancing	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	stairs = stair		the foot of light			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
2	see	past	Kerplash					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	light	a broad bright road				tree rules
4	slope up	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	could	Kerplash	shining things		at the far far end of light		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
6	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dance	gerund	shining things not said here				about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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