The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 55
In one instant he had knocked over the great stand of lights that lighted the hall, and in the darkness had borne the princess to the gate.
Who acts: great stand · What happens: knock, light, bear · To what, where: best, one instant, hall, princess, darkness
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great stand), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 instant | nummod |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knocked | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knocked | aux |
| 6 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 stand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stand | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stand | amod |
| 10 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knocked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lights | case |
| 12 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stand | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lighted | nsubj |
| 14 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stand | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lighted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 borne | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 borne | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 darkness | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 darkness | det |
| 21 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 borne | obl |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 borne | aux |
| 23 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 knocked | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 princess | det |
| 25 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 borne | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 gate | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gate | det |
| 28 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 princess | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past · perfect · passive | best = good | one instant | over the great stand of lights | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in instant=Destination | |||
| 2 | light | past | the great stand of lights | the hall | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Product | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · perfect | the princess | the darkness | to the gate | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
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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