The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 17
He gazed steadily into the depths for some minutes, when he became aware that down in the darkness was a bright spark, which got rapidly bigger and brighter.
Who acts: manner, bright spark · What happens: gaze, become, be, get · To what, where: bright spark, darkness
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 (manner, bright spark), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gazed | nsubj |
| 2 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 2 gazed | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 depths | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 depths | det |
| 6 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gazed | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 minutes | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 minutes | det |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 depths | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 became | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gazed | conj |
| 14 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 down | amod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 down | nsubj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 became | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 darkness | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 darkness | det |
| 19 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spark | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spark | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 spark | det |
| 22 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spark | amod |
| 23 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spark | conj |
| 27 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 28 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 got | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brighter | cc |
| 30 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 bigger | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | manner | into the depths for some minutes; steadily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into depth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | manner | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | manner not said here | a bright spark | the darkness | tree rules | |||
| 4 | get | past | a bright spark | big, rapidly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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