The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 113
After a day and a night he saw the column rise in silent beauty to the heavens.
Who acts: thanks, column · What happens: see, rise · To what, where: silent beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thanks, column), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 night | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 column | det |
| 10 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rise | nsubj |
| 11 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 beauty | case |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beauty | amod |
| 14 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rise | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 heavens | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heavens | det |
| 17 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rise | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | thanks | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise | present | the column | silent beauty | to the heavens | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beauty=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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