The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 126

But the moon shone brightly on every tree, and nothing was to be seen but his own shadow; nothing was to be heard but the sound of the rippling stream.

Who acts: moon, attraction · What happens: shine, see, hear, shadow · To what, where: tree, nothing

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, attraction), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 shone	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	4 shone	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seen	cc
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	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	4 shone	parataxis
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 shadow	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shadow	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shadow	amod
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 heard	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	aux:pass
23	to	to	PART	_	25 heard	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 heard	aux:pass
25	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shone	parataxis
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 sound	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sound	det
28	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 stream	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stream	det
31	rippling	rippling	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stream	compound
32	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sound	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the moon		every tree	brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location
2	see	past · passive		nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	hear	past · passive		nothing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	shadow		attraction				nom shadow «state 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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