The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 7

Trembling they sat till the darkness fled and the light shone again upon them, but in the place where they were wont to see cattle, and herds, and dwellings, they beheld neither house nor beast, nor man nor smoke; neither was any one remaining in the green place save these four only.

Who acts: darkness, light, lands, neither, one · What happens: tremble, sit, flee, shine, be, see · To what, where: herds, place, cattle, house, one, green place

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darkness, light, lands, neither), 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	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sat	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 fled	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 darkness	det
6	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fled	nsubj
7	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shone	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 light	det
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shone	nsubj
11	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fled	conj
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 shone	advmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shone	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 place	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 place	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 wont	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wont	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wont	cop
23	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 place	amod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wont	xcomp
26	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 herds	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 herds	cc
29	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dwellings	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dwellings	cc
32	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 beheld	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 beheld	nsubj
35	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
36	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 house	cc:preconj
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 beheld	obj
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	39 beast	cc
39	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 house	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 man	punct
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	42 man	cc
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 beheld	obl
43	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	44 smoke	cc
44	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 man	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 one	punct
46	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	49 one	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 one	cop
48	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	49 one	det
49	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 save	nsubj
50	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 one	acl
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 place	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 place	det
53	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 place	amod
54	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 remaining	obl
55	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
56	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	57 four	det
57	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 save	obj
58	only	only	ADV	_	57 four	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	gerund						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past		herds	the place		dwellings obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
3	flee	past	the darkness					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shine	past	the light			again	upon lands = land	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location
5	is	past	lands = land				wont property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	lands = land not said here	cattle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cattle=Stimulus
7	behold	past	lands = land	house nor beast			man nor smoke obl	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
8	is a	past	neither	any one				tree rules
9	remain	gerund	any one not said here		the green place			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
10	save	present	any one	this four				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=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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