The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 58

Before the sun rose he found himself in a thick wood where it was too dark for him to see his path, and here he heard an owl crying as if it were in despair.

Who acts: sun, raven, owl · What happens: rise, find, be, see, hear, cry · To what, where: sun, thick wood, path, owl, despair

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, raven, owl), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 rose	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 found	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wood	det
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wood	amod
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 dark	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dark	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dark	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 dark	advmod
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wood	amod
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 see	mark
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 dark	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 path	nmod:poss
22	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 heard	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 owl	det
29	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	obj
30	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 owl	acl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 despair	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 despair	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 despair	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 despair	cop
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 despair	case
36	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crying	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the sun				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	sun	sun	a thick wood		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	is	past	raven			dark property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	sun	sun's path			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus
5	hear	past	sun	a owl	here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer owl=Stimulus
6	cry speech: express	gerund	a owl not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	raven		despair		tree rules

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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