The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 163

During the winter, it was all night except for an hour or so about noon, when the darkness seemed a little less dark, and then they used to see which of them could tempt her out for a sleigh ride with the Northern Lights flashing above them, or which could persuade her to come to a dance in some neighbouring barn.

Who acts: love, darkness, girls, Northern Lights · What happens: be, seem, use, see, tempt out, flash · To what, where: night, darkness, neighbouring barn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, darkness, girls, Northern Lights), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 winter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winter	det
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 winter	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 night	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 night	cop
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	except	except	ADP	_	12 hour	case
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 hour	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hour	det
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 so	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	12 hour	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 noon	case
16	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 so	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seemed	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 seemed	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 darkness	det
20	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 noon	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 less	obl
24	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 dark	advmod
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seemed	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 used	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 used	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 used	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 used	nsubj
30	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seemed	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 used	xcomp
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 tempt	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tempt	obl
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 tempt	aux
37	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 see	ccomp
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tempt	obj
39	out	out	ADP	_	37 tempt	compound:prt
40	for	for	ADP	_	43 ride	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 ride	det
42	sleigh	sleigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ride	compound
43	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tempt	obl
44	with	with	ADP	_	47 Lights	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Lights	det
46	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 Lights	amod
47	Lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 ride	nmod
48	flashing	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 Lights	acl
49	above	above	ADP	_	50 them	case
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 flashing	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 persuade	punct
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 persuade	cc
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 persuade	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 persuade	aux
55	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 used	advcl
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 persuade	obj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 come	mark
58	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 persuade	xcomp
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 dance	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 dance	det
61	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 come	obl
62	in	in	ADP	_	65 barn	case
63	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	65 barn	det
64	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 barn	amod
65	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 come	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	love	all night		hour; winter		tree rules
2	seem	past	the darkness				dark property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	use	past	girls = girl			then		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	see	to-infinitive	girls = girl not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	tempt out	could		darkness			of girls = girl; for a sleigh ride with the Northern Lights	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer she=Result
6	flash	gerund	the Northern Lights not said here				above girls = girl	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location
7	persuade	could		darkness				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
8	come	to-infinitive	darkness not said here		some neighbouring barn		to a dance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial_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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