The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 23

She never saw him, however, for he always came after she had put out her light, and went away before daylight appeared.

Who acts: door, man, daylight · What happens: not see, come, put out, go away, appear, light · To what, where: man, light

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, man, daylight), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 put	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	aux
15	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 light	nmod:poss
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 appeared	mark
24	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appeared	nsubj
25	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past	door	man	however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	come	past	man		always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put out	past · perfect	door	door's light		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal
4	go away	past	door not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	appear	past	daylight			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	light		door			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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