The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 95

But the moon was shining so brightly over the sea that it seemed to draw her towards it, and taking her violin under her arm, she crept down to the shore.

Who acts: moon, it · What happens: shine, seem, draw, take, creep down · To what, where: sea, moon, feast, violin, arm, shore

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, it), 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	_	5 shining	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shining	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shining	aux
5	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 seemed	advcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 brightly	advmod
7	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	5 shining	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shining	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 seemed	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 draw	mark
15	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 draw	obj
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 draw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taking	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 taking	cc
21	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 seemed	parataxis
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 violin	nmod:poss
23	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obj
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 arm	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arm	nmod:poss
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crept	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 crept	nsubj
29	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seemed	conj
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 crept	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 shore	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shore	det
33	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crept	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	the moon		the sea	brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location
2	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	draw	to-infinitive		moon	feast		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme towards it=Destination
4	take	gerund		moon's violin	moon's arm		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violin=Theme
5	creep down	past	moon		the shore	down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination

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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