The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 91
The moon was bright, and for some hours he kept steadily on, not knowing how many miles he had gone, nor even feeling tired.
Who acts: moon, sky · What happens: be, keep, not know, go, feel · To what, where: many miles
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, sky), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bright | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bright | cop |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 hours | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 hours | det |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kept | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bright | conj |
| 12 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 13 on | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 kept | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knowing | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 knowing | advmod |
| 16 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 kept | advcl |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 miles | amod |
| 19 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knowing | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | aux |
| 22 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 miles | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 feeling | punct |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 feeling | cc |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 feeling | advmod |
| 26 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 knowing | conj |
| 27 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feeling | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bright | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the moon | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | sky | hour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | sky not said here | many miles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mile=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | sky | many miles not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | gerund | sky not said here | tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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