The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 17
But beside the brown otter, a huge shadow came stealing along--the shadow of the giant.
Who acts: huge shadow · What happens: come, steal, shadow · To what, where: shadow, giant
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge shadow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 2 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 otter | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 otter | det |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 otter | amod |
| 5 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 otter | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shadow | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shadow | amod |
| 9 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | stealing | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 came | xcomp |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 stealing | advmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 shadow | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shadow | det |
| 15 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stealing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 giant | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shadow | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a huge shadow | beside the brown otter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steal | gerund | a huge shadow not said here | the shadow of the giant | along property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | shadow | the giant | nom shadow «state 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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