The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 104
At the bottom of the well was a little light by which one could see if anyone was thrown in whether he had fallen to the bottom.
Who acts: one, shepherd · What happens: be, see, throw, fall · To what, where: little light, bottom, anyone
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, shepherd), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 bottom | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bottom | det |
| 3 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 light | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 well | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 well | det |
| 6 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottom | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 light | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 light | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 see | obl |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 light | advcl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 thrown | mark |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thrown | aux:pass |
| 19 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 see | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 thrown | obl |
| 21 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 24 fallen | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fallen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fallen | aux |
| 24 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 thrown | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 bottom | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bottom | det |
| 27 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fallen | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a little light | the bottom of the well | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | could | one | by a little light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | throw a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | anyone | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | shepherd | to the bottom | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bottom=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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