The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 34
Passing the spot where stood Bernez and the beggar, they were lost in the darkness.
What happens: pass, stand, lose · To what, where: spot, Bernez, jewels, darkness
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lost | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spot | det |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Passing | obj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spot | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beggar | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beggar | det |
| 9 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bernez | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Passing | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux:pass |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 darkness | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 darkness | det |
| 16 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | the spot | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spot=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | Bernez and the beggar | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bernez=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | jewels = jewel | the darkness | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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