The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 36
‘Quick,’ said the wizard, in a low voice, and he rushed towards the empty holes, which even in the night shone brightly from the treasures within them.
Who acts: procession, night · What happens: say, rush, shine · To what, where: wizard, low voice, empty holes, treasures · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (procession, night), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quick | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wizard | det |
| 7 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rushed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rushed | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rushed | nsubj |
| 16 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 holes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 holes | det |
| 19 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 holes | amod |
| 20 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rushed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shone | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 shone | obj |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 night | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 night | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shone | nsubj |
| 27 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 holes | acl:relcl |
| 28 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 27 shone | advmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 treasures | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 treasures | det |
| 31 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shone | obl |
| 32 | within | within | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 shone | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the wizard | a low voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent wizard=Theme in voice=Manner | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | procession | the empty holes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hole=Destination | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | the night | the empty holes | the treasures | within treasures = treasure; brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=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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