Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 8

On one of the islands was a light-house; and there, all through that stormy night, Grace Darling had listened to the storm.

Who acts: one, Grace · What happens: be, listen · To what, where: light house

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Grace), 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	On	on	ADP	_	10 house	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 house	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 islands	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 islands	det
5	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 house	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 light	punct
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 listened	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 there	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 there	cc
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 house	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 night	punct
15	all	all	ADV	_	19 night	advmod
16	through	through	ADP	_	19 night	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 night	det
18	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 night	amod
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 there	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 house	punct
21	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 listened	nsubj
22	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Grace	flat
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 listened	aux
24	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 storm	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 storm	det
27	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 listened	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	one of the islands			a light house; there			tree rules
2	listen	past · perfect	Grace					to the storm	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to storm=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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