The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 90

He made his way through the forest as fast as the darkness would let him, and at length arrived in flowery fields, which dazzled him with their brightness.

Who acts: hermit, darkness · What happens: make, let, arrive, dazzle · To what, where: way, forest, hermit, length

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 (hermit, darkness), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 made	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 let	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 darkness	det
12	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fast	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 arrived	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 arrived	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 length	case
19	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arrived	obl
20	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 fields	case
22	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fields	amod
23	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 arrived	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dazzled	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 dazzled	nsubj
26	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 arrived	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dazzled	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 brightness	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brightness	nmod:poss
30	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dazzled	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	hermit	hermit's way	the forest	fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product
2	let	would	the darkness	hermit			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	arrive	past			length	in flowery fields	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dazzle	past		hermit		with fields's brightness	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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