The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 24

A strange white line of light told him where the sword was, and crossing the room on tiptoe, he seized the knob, and drew it slowly out of the sheath.

Who acts: strange white line, sword, man · What happens: tell, be, cross, seize, draw · To what, where: man, room, tiptoe, knob, sheath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange white line, sword, man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 line	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 line	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 line	amod
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 line	nmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 was	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sword	det
11	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crossing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crossing	cc
15	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crossing	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 tiptoe	case
19	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crossing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seized	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seized	nsubj
22	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 knob	det
24	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seized	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drew	cc
27	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drew	obj
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	27 drew	advmod
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 sheath	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sheath	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sheath	det
33	sheath	sheath	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drew	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a strange white line of light		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	past	the sword					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cross	gerund	a strange white line of light not said here	the room		tiptoe		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
4	seize	past	man	the knob				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knob=Theme
5	draw	past		knob		the sheath	slowly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out sheath=Initial_Location

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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