The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 20

At the bottom the king found a narrow grassy ledge by the brink of the stream, across which the light from a rude lantern in the mount of a cave shed a broad beam of uncertain light.

Who acts: king, light · What happens: find, shed, beam · To what, where: narrow grassy ledge, bottom, broad beam, uncertain light

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 (king, light), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 bottom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottom	det
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ledge	det
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ledge	amod
9	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ledge	amod
10	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 brink	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brink	det
13	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 stream	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stream	det
16	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brink	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shed	punct
18	across	across	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 shed	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 light	det
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shed	nsubj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 lantern	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lantern	det
24	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lantern	amod
25	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 light	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 mount	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mount	det
28	mount	mount	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lantern	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 cave	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cave	det
31	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mount	nmod
32	shed	shed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 found	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 beam	det
34	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 beam	amod
35	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shed	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 light	case
37	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 light	amod
38	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 beam	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the king	a narrow grassy ledge	the bottom	by the brink of the stream	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent ledge=Theme at bottom=Asset
2	shed	participle	the light from a rude lantern in the mount of a cave	a broad beam of uncertain light			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beam=Source
3	beam			uncertain light			nom beam «communication transitive»: of=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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