Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 48

He waited till it was darker and people had begun to light up their houses, and then seeing a little glimmer ahead of him, he went towards it.

Who acts: man, way, people · What happens: wait, be, begin, light up, see, go · To what, where: houses, little glimmer, way

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, way, people), 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 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 darker	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 darker	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 darker	cop
6	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 waited	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begun	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 begun	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 begun	aux
10	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 waited	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 light	mark
12	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begun	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 light	compound:prt
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 houses	nmod:poss
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 light	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seeing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seeing	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 seeing	advmod
19	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 waited	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 glimmer	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 glimmer	amod
22	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seeing	obj
23	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	19 seeing	advmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ahead	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
29	towards	towards	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	man					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	way				dark property	tree rules
3	begin	past · perfect	people					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	light up	to-infinitive	people not said here	people's houses				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product
5	see	gerund	man not said here	a little glimmer		then	ahead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimmer=Stimulus
6	go	past	man		way			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards it=Initial_Location

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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