The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 8
He went on and on for the livelong day, and at nightfall he came to a place where there was a bright light.
Who acts: Christmas · What happens: go, come · To what, where: nightfall
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christmas), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | livelong | livelong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 nightfall | case |
| 13 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 was | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 light | det |
| 23 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 light | amod |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Christmas | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Christmas | nightfall | to a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=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 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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