The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 11
But so it was; and as the steeple opposite was touched by the golden light, the poor man shut his eyes and sprang forward.
Who acts: golden light, poor man · What happens: touch, shut, spring · To what, where: look, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden light, poor man), 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 | _ | 12 touched | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 touched | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 touched | aux:pass |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 touched | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 touched | cc |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 opposite | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 opposite | det |
| 9 | steeple | steeple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opposite | compound |
| 10 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 touched | aux:pass |
| 12 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 light | amod |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shut | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shut | nsubj |
| 21 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 light | parataxis |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shut | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sprang | cc |
| 25 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 shut | conj |
| 26 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 25 sprang | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · passive | the golden light | look | as the steeple opposite | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | shut | past | the poor man | man's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spring | past | the poor man not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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