The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 70

It was quite late when he reached it, but he could discover no light anywhere, and walked almost right through it without finding a house where he could turn in.

Who acts: town, Luck · What happens: be, reach, discover, walk, find, turn in · To what, where: town, light, house

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, Luck), 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	4 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 reached	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 reached	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 discover	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 discover	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 discover	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 discover	aux
13	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reached	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 light	det
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 discover	obj
16	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 discover	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 walked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 walked	cc
19	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	conj
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 right	advmod
21	right	right	ADV	_	23 it	advmod
22	through	through	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 walked	obl
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 finding	mark
25	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 walked	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 finding	obj
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 turn	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turn	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 turn	aux
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 house	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	31 turn	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	town			late property	tree rules
2	reach	past	Luck	town			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	discover	could	Luck	no light		anywhere property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Topic
4	walk	past	Luck not said here		town		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory
5	find	gerund	Luck not said here	a house			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic
6	turn in	could	Luck				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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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