The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 83
Close around the hut was thick darkness, but what was that bobbing light that streamed across the water?
Who acts: hut, light · What happens: be, bob, stream · To what, where: thick darkness, water
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hut, 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 darkness | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 darkness | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hut | det |
| 4 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 darkness | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 darkness | cop |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 darkness | amod |
| 7 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bobbing | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 bobbing | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 bobbing | obj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bobbing | aux |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 bobbing | mark |
| 13 | bobbing | bob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 darkness | conj |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bobbing | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 streamed | nsubj |
| 16 | streamed | stream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 light | acl:relcl |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 streamed | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 darkness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hut | thick darkness | close property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bob | past · progressive | the hut not said here | thick darkness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stream | past | light | the water | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across water=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: «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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