The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 58

However, having walked for some time with his brothers toward that side on which he had seen the light, he perceived it again as he came out of the wood.

Who acts: thumb · What happens: walk, see, perceive, come out · To what, where: light, side, wood

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thumb), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 walked	aux
4	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 time	nmod
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	13 side	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 side	det
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brothers	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seen	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 side	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 light	det
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seen	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 perceived	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 perceived	nsubj
23	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 perceived	obj
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 perceived	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 perceived	advcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 wood	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 wood	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wood	det
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund · perfect				time	however property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past · perfect	thumb	the light	that side			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	perceive	past	thumb	light		again		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	come out	past	thumb	the wood				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient wood=Result

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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