The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 38

Nothing was to be seen but the shining of the river, and the dark shadows of the trees; nothing was to be heard but the hum of the insects, as they darted through the night.

Who acts: insects · What happens: see, hear, dart, shine, shadow, hum · To what, where: Nothing, river, trees

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 (insects), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 seen	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 seen	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 shining	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shining	det
8	shining	shining	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shining	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shadows	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shadows	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shadows	det
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shadows	amod
16	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seen	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 trees	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shadows	nmod
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	5 seen	conj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 hum	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hum	det
28	hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 insects	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 insects	det
31	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hum	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 darted	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 darted	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 darted	nsubj
35	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	conj
36	through	through	ADP	_	38 night	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 night	det
38	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 darted	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		Nothing		the dark shadows of the trees obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	hear	past · passive		nothing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	dart	past	insects = insect		night		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shine			the river			nom shining «act transitive»: of=patient
5	shadow			the trees			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient
6	hum		the insects				nom hum «state intransitive»: of=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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