The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 53

He glanced up to where the sword usually hung, but it was gone; and instinctively he looked at the prince’s hand, where he saw it gleaming brightly.

Who acts: noise, sword · What happens: glance up, hang, be, look, see, gleam · To what, where: sword

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 (noise, sword), 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 glanced	nsubj
2	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 glanced	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 hung	case
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 hung	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sword	det
7	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	nsubj
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 hung	advmod
9	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 gone	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	cop
14	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hung	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 looked	cc
17	instinctively	instinctively	ADV	_	19 looked	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	24 hand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hand	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 prince	case
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 saw	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	obj
30	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 saw	xcomp
31	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	30 gleaming	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 glanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	glance up	past	noise			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	hang	past	the sword		usually property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	sword		gone property	tree rules
4	look	past	noise		at the prince's hand; instinctively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hand=Theme
5	see	past	noise	sword		tree rules
6	gleam	gerund	sword not said here		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «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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