The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 40
For three days he lay in utter darkness; then the light began to come back, till soon he saw as well as ever.
Who acts: prince, light · What happens: lie in, begin, come back, see · To what, where: utter darkness
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, light), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 7 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 darkness | amod |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 began | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 saw | mark |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 began | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 21 saw | advmod |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 ever | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 saw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in | past | prince | utter darkness | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location darkness=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the light | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come back | to-infinitive | the light not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | prince | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ever=Attribute |
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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