The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 13
Every shot fell short, or went wide of the mark; and at last, just as darkness was setting in, he lost sight altogether of the beast.
Who acts: shot, darkness · What happens: fall, go, set in, lose · To what, where: sight
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shot, darkness), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 shot | det |
| 2 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mark | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mark | det |
| 11 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 last | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 last | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 setting | punct |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 setting | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 setting | mark |
| 19 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 setting | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 setting | aux |
| 21 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 last | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 setting | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lost | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lost | nsubj |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | obj |
| 27 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 30 beast | advmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 beast | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 beast | det |
| 30 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | every shot | short property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | every shot not said here | of the mark; wide property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of mark=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | set in | past · progressive | darkness | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | lose | past | darkness | sight | of the beast | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme of beast=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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