The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 1
Presently he was aware of a gentle radiance that shed itself before him.
Who acts: he, gentle radiance · What happens: be, shed · To what, where: radiance
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (he, gentle radiance), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 aware | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 aware | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 radiance | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 radiance | det |
| 7 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 radiance | amod |
| 8 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aware | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 shed | nsubj |
| 10 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 radiance | acl:relcl |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 shed | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | of a gentle radiance; aware, presently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shed | past | a gentle radiance | radiance | before him = he | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Source |
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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