The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 107
But as he was nearing the city, a light wind sprang up, and swayed him in the direction of the wall.
Who acts: half, light wind · What happens: near, spring up, sway · To what, where: city, wind, direction
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, light wind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 sprang | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 nearing | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nearing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nearing | aux |
| 5 | nearing | near | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sprang | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nearing | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wind | compound |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 sprang | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swayed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swayed | cc |
| 16 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sprang | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 swayed | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 direction | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 direction | det |
| 20 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swayed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wall | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wall | det |
| 23 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 direction | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | past · progressive | half | the city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spring up | past | a light wind | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sway | past | a light wind not said here | wind | the direction of the wall | tree rules |
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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