Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 14

At last he fancied that he saw a great light like the sun; and in the midst of the light there stood an old man with black hair, holding an open book in his hand.

Who acts: King · What happens: fancy, see, stand, hold · To what, where: last, great light, old man, midst, open book, hand

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 saw	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancied	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 light	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 light	amod
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 light	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stood	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 midst	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 midst	det
18	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 light	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 light	det
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 stood	advmod
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancied	conj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 hair	case
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hair	amod
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 holding	punct
31	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stood	advcl
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 book	det
33	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 book	amod
34	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 holding	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hand	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hand	nmod:poss
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 holding	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	King		last		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	past	King	a great light		like the sun	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	stand	past	King not said here	a old man	the midst; there	of the light; with black hair	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in midst=Destination
4	hold	gerund	King not said here	a open book	King's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent book=Theme in hand=Location

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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