The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 119
There they stood, looking towards the bridge of Thuar, in the dead of the night, with a little moonlight shining from over Kilachdiarmid.
Who acts: women, little moonlight · What happens: stand, look, shine · To what, where: Kilachdiarmid
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, little moonlight), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 bridge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bridge | det |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Thuar | case |
| 10 | Thuar | Thuar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bridge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dead | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dead | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dead | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dead | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 moonlight | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 moonlight | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moonlight | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 moonlight | amod |
| 22 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 23 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 moonlight | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Kilachdiarmid | case |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 26 Kilachdiarmid | advmod |
| 26 | Kilachdiarmid | Kilachdiarmid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 shining | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | women = woman | there | with a little moonlight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | women = woman not said here | towards the bridge of Thuar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards bridge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | a little moonlight not said here | Kilachdiarmid | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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