The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 101
All was silent in the village, and not a light was to be seen but that of the moon, which shone bright and clear in the sky.
Who acts: All, moon · What happens: be, see, shine · To what, where: village, light, sky
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, moon), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 silent | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 silent | cop |
| 3 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 silent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seen | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 light | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 silent | parataxis |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 moon | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 moon | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 moon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moon | det |
| 20 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shone | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 shone | nsubj |
| 23 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 moon | acl:relcl |
| 24 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shone | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 clear | cc |
| 26 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bright | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 sky | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sky | det |
| 29 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shone | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | All | the village | silent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past · passive | a light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | shine | past | the moon | the sky | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=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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