More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 25

"Yes, just like that!" said the Sexton; "and as they came nearer and nearer to me I could see them more distinctly, because their eyes shone out with a sort of green light.

Who acts: Sexton, Cats, eyes · What happens: say, come, see, shine out, sort · To what, where: Sexton, Cats, green light · 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 (Sexton, Cats, eyes), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 that	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Yes	vocative
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sexton	det
11	Sexton	Sexton	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	advcl
18	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 came	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 nearer	cc
20	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 nearer	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 came	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	obj
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 distinctly	advmod
28	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shone	punct
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 shone	mark
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eyes	nmod:poss
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 shone	nsubj
33	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 see	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 shone	compound:prt
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 sort	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sort	det
37	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shone	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 light	case
39	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 light	amod
40	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sort	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Sexton				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come in a quote	past	Cats = cat		the Sexton = sexton	near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
3	see in a quote	could	the Sexton = sexton	Cats = cat		distinctly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	shine out in a quote	participle	Cats's eyes			with a sort of green light	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sort=Theme
5	sort in a quote			green light			nom sort «cognition 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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