The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 35

Dead men's bones were there also, and long white creatures who had never seen the light, for they mostly dwelt in the clefts of rocks where the sun's rays could not come.

Who acts: bones, long white creatures, rays, sun · What happens: be, not see, dwell, not come, ray · To what, where: light, clefts

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, long white creatures, rays, sun), 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 men	amod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bones	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 men	case
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	also	also	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 creatures	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 creatures	cc
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creatures	amod
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creatures	amod
12	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seen	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 seen	advmod
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 creatures	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dwelt	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 dwelt	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dwelt	nsubj
22	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	23 dwelt	advmod
23	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 clefts	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 clefts	det
26	clefts	cleft	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dwelt	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 rocks	case
28	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 clefts	nmod
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 come	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sun	det
31	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rays	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 sun	case
33	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 come	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 come	advmod
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 rocks	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dead men's bones			long white creatures obl; there property	tree rules
2	not see	past · perfect	long white creatures	the light			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	dwell	past	bones = bone		the clefts of rocks	mostly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cleft=Location
4	not come	could	the sun's rays				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ray		the sun				nom ray «phenomenon 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 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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