The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 108

The inside of the hut was so dark that at first they could see nothing at all; but presently they heard a feeble croak from one corner.

Who acts: inside, sorts · What happens: be, see, hear · To what, where: nothing, all, feeble croak, one corner

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inside, sorts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inside	det
2	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dark	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hut	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hut	det
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inside	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dark	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 dark	advmod
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 first	case
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 see	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dark	advcl
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 see	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 nothing	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 heard	cc
20	presently	presently	ADV	_	22 heard	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dark	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 croak	det
24	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 croak	amod
25	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 corner	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 corner	nummod
28	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the inside of the hut			dark property	tree rules
2	see	could	sorts = sort	nothing	all		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	hear	past	sorts = sort	a feeble croak	one corner	presently property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent croak=Topic from corner=Source

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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