The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 79

This put new heart into him, and he directed his steps straight towards the faint rays, till he could see, sitting by it, an old hermit, with a long white beard.

Who acts: This, Heart · What happens: put, direct, see, sit, step · To what, where: new heart, steps, old hermit

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 (This, Heart), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heart	amod
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 directed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 directed	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 directed	nsubj
10	directed	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 steps	nmod:poss
12	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 directed	obj
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	17 rays	advmod
14	towards	towards	ADP	_	17 rays	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rays	det
16	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rays	amod
17	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 steps	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 directed	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 see	xcomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hermit	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hermit	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hermit	amod
30	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 beard	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	36 beard	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 beard	det
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 beard	amod
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 beard	amod
36	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	past	This	new heart	into Heart	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent heart=Goal
2	direct	past	Heart	Heart's steps and the faint rays		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent step=Eventuality
3	see	could	Heart			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	sit	gerund	Heart not said here	a old hermit	by step; with a long white beard	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location
5	step		Heart			nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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