The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 107
On and on, and on, till at last he saw a beam of light streaming from a house and hastened towards it.
Who acts: blessing, light · What happens: see, stream, hasten, beam · To what, where: beam, house, light
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 on | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 on | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 saw | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 on | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 on | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 beam | det |
| 14 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beam | nmod |
| 17 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 light | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 streaming | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hastened | cc |
| 22 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | conj |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hastened | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | blessing | a beam of light | till last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beam=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stream | gerund | light not said here | a house | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from house=Source | ||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | blessing not said here | house | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | beam | light | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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