The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 22

But when he reached the shore there was nothing to be seen but the shadows cast by the moonlight.

Who acts: prince, nothing, shadows · What happens: reach, be, see, cast · To what, where: shore

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, nothing, shadows), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 was	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shore	det
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 was	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 seen	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 seen	aux:pass
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 nothing	acl
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 cast	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shadows	det
15	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cast	nsubj
16	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seen	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 moonlight	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moonlight	det
19	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cast	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	prince	the shore			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
2	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	cast	participle	the shadows			by the moonlight	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by moonlight=Destination

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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