The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 78
Then he made a great effort and went on a few paces, and suddenly, far before him, he saw the glimmer of a light.
Who acts: child, light · What happens: make, go, see, glimmer · To what, where: great effort, glimmer
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, light), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 effort | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 effort | amod |
| 6 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 paces | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 paces | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 paces | amod |
| 12 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 him | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 him | cc |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 19 him | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 him | punct |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 him | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 glimmer | det |
| 24 | glimmer | glimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 light | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 light | det |
| 27 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 glimmer | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | child | a great effort | before Heart; then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product | |||
| 2 | go | past | child not said here | on a few paces | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on pace=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | child | the glimmer of a light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimmer=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | glimmer | a light | nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=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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