The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 55

There he would find the maiden waiting for him, and they would spend an hour or two under the stars, which looked so large and bright that you felt as if you could almost touch them.

Who acts: Alonzo, birds, stars, you · What happens: find, spend, look, feel, touch · To what, where: maiden waiting, stars, birds

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 (Alonzo, birds, stars, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 find	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 waiting	det
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 waiting	amod
7	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 waiting	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spend	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spend	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spend	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 spend	aux
14	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spend	obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 two	cc
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hour	conj
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 stars	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stars	det
21	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spend	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 looked	nsubj
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stars	acl:relcl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 large	advmod
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 looked	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bright	cc
28	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 large	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 felt	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 felt	nsubj
31	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 large	advcl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 touch	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 touch	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 touch	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 touch	aux
36	almost	almost	ADV	_	37 touch	advmod
37	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 felt	ccomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 touch	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	Alonzo	the maiden waiting	there		for Julia	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent waiting=Theme for he=Beneficiary
2	spend	would	birds = bird		the stars	hour		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	the stars				large property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	feel	past	you					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	touch a condition, not said to happen	could	you	birds = bird			almost property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

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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