More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 14

Causleen, the evening star, was beaming with silvery light, soon to be lost in the moon's splendour.

Who acts: Causleen · What happens: beam, lose · To what, where: splendour

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Causleen), 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	Causleen	Causleen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 beaming	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 star	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 star	det
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 star	compound
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Causleen	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Causleen	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beaming	aux
8	beaming	beam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 light	case
10	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 light	amod
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beaming	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lost	punct
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 lost	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	16 lost	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 lost	aux:pass
16	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 beaming	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 splendour	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moon	det
19	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 splendour	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 moon	case
21	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lost	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 beaming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beam	past · progressive	Causleen					with silvery light	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme
2	lose	to-infinitive · passive	Causleen not said here			the moon's splendour		soon property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in splendour=Eventuality

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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