The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 42
The moon shone so brightly that they had no difficulty in seeing the marked trees.
Who acts: moon, maidens, difficulty · What happens: shine, have, see, mark · To what, where: difficulty, marked trees
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, maidens, difficulty), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 brightly | advmod |
| 5 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 3 shone | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shone | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 difficulty | det |
| 10 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 seeing | mark |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 difficulty | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 14 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 trees | amod |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seeing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the moon | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | maidens = maiden | no difficulty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | no difficulty not said here | the marked trees | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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