The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 28

He stood still, and wondered if he should go on, when, on looking up, a stream of light seemed to flow from the top of a tall tree.

Who acts: man, stream · What happens: stand, wonder, go on, look up, seem, flow · To what, where: top

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stream), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wondered	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wondered	cc
6	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 go	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wondered	ccomp
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 when	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 go	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looking	punct
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 looking	mark
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wondered	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 looking	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stream	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stream	det
20	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seemed	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 light	case
22	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stream	nmod
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looking	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 flow	mark
25	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seemed	xcomp
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 top	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flow	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 tree	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 tree	det
31	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tree	amod
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 top	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	man		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wonder speech: ask	past	man not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go on a condition, not said to happen	should	man			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look up	gerund	man not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	seem	past	a stream of light			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	flow	to-infinitive	a stream of light not said here	the top of a tall tree		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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