The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 105
He turned round, and in the corner he beheld a rusty old iron kettle, which could not have seen the light of day for many years.
Who acts: middle · What happens: turn round, behold, not see, light · To what, where: rusty old iron kettle, corner, day
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beheld | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beheld | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 corner | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 corner | det |
| 8 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beheld | nsubj |
| 10 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kettle | det |
| 12 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kettle | amod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kettle | amod |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kettle | compound |
| 15 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 seen | advmod |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 kettle | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 light | det |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 light | nmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 years | case |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 years | amod |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seen | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | middle | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | middle | a rusty old iron kettle | the corner | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kettle=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not see | could · perfect · passive | a rusty old iron kettle | year | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | light | day | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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