The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 174
At that moment twelve struck, and the spirit vanished, leaving the youth alone in the dark.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: strike, vanish, leave · To what, where: youth, dark
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 moment | flat |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vanished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vanished | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spirit | det |
| 9 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vanished | nsubj |
| 10 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaving | punct |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 vanished | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaving | obj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 leaving | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dark | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dark | det |
| 18 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | moment | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | vanish | past | the spirit | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the spirit not said here | the youth | the dark | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent youth=Theme in dark=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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