The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 116

The moon was shining on the distant river, which looked cool and inviting, and the trees of the forest seemed to stretch out their arms and beckon him near.

Who acts: moon, distant river, trees · What happens: shine, look, invite, seem, stretch out, beckon · To what, where: distant river, arms, tree

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, distant river, trees), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shining	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shining	aux
4	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
7	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 river	amod
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shining	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 river	acl:relcl
12	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looked	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 inviting	cc
14	inviting	invite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cool	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seemed	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seemed	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 forest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forest	det
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	nmod
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looked	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stretch	mark
24	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seemed	xcomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 stretch	compound:prt
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arms	nmod:poss
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stretch	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 beckon	cc
29	beckon	beckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stretch	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 beckon	obj
31	near	near	ADV	_	29 beckon	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	the moon		the distant river		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on river=Location
2	look	past	the distant river			cool property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	invite	gerund	the distant river not said here				vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	the trees of the forest				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	stretch out	to-infinitive	the trees of the forest not said here	forests's arms			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
6	beckon	infinitive	the trees of the forest not said here	tree		near property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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