The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 77
Just at this moment of his ill-fate his people came up, and gathered round him like moths round a light.
Who acts: moment, arrow · What happens: come up, gather, fate
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, arrow), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 moment | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fate | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fate | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fate | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ill | punct |
| 9 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moment | nmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 people | nmod:poss |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gathered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gathered | cc |
| 16 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gathered | obl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 moths | case |
| 20 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gathered | obl |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 light | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 light | det |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 moths | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | this moment of arrow's ill fate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | gather | past | this moment of arrow's ill fate not said here | round arrow; like moths round a light | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fate | arrow | nom fate «event 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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