The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 128
At the same instant the moon passed from behind a cloud, and its rays fell on a beautiful golden-haired woman standing half hidden by the ferns.
Who acts: moon, rays, cloud · What happens: pass, fall, stand, hide, ray · To what, where: same instant, beautiful woman standing half
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, rays, cloud), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 instant | amod |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cloud | case |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 cloud | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cloud | det |
| 11 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 rays | nmod:poss |
| 15 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 half | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 half | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 half | amod |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 haired | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 golden | punct |
| 22 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 woman | amod |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 half | compound |
| 24 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 half | amod |
| 25 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 fell | obl |
| 26 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 half | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 ferns | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ferns | det |
| 29 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hidden | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the moon | the same instant | from a cloud | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at instant=Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | cloud's rays | a beautiful woman standing half | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on half=Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | hide | participle | a beautiful woman standing half not said here | by the ferns | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fern=Location | ||||
| 5 | ray | cloud | nom ray «phenomenon 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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