The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 13

But though the moon still shone he saw nothing, and by and by a kind of dreamy state seemed to steal over him as he leant against a tree.

Who acts: moon, kind · What happens: shine, see, seem, steal · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, kind), 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	_	8 saw	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 shone	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shone	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 shone	advmod
6	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kind	cc
12	by	by	ADP	_	16 kind	case
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kind	cc
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 kind	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 kind	det
16	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 state	case
18	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 state	amod
19	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kind	nmod
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 steal	mark
22	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 steal	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 leant	case
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 leant	nsubj
27	leant	leant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 steal	obl
28	against	against	ADP	_	30 tree	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tree	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leant	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the moon		still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	moon	nothing			tree rules
3	seem	past	a kind of dreamy state				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	steal	to-infinitive	a kind of dreamy state not said here			over manner; as leant against a tree	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location

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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