The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 42

It was a pale yellow light, and it shone down the passage far ahead of him through what looked like the chink of a door.

Who acts: wound · What happens: be, shine down, look · To what, where: pale yellow light, passage

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wound), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 light	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 light	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 light	det
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shone	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shone	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shone	nsubj
10	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 light	parataxis
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 shone	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 passage	det
13	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shone	obj
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ahead	advmod
15	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	10 shone	advmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ahead	obl
18	through	through	SCONJ	_	20 looked	mark
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shone	advcl
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 chink	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chink	det
23	chink	chink	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looked	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 door	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chink	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	wound	a pale yellow light		tree rules
2	shine down	past	wound	the passage	ahead property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent passage=Theme
3	look	past			like the chink of a door	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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