The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 61

However, those who went by sea were more fortunate, for after sailing about for some time they noticed a light before them which burned at night like a great fire.

Who acts: those, doll, light · What happens: go, be, sail, notice, burn · To what, where: light

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those, doll, light), 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	_	10 fortunate	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 fortunate	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 those	acl:relcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fortunate	cop
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 fortunate	advmod
10	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sailing	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 sailing	mark
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 sailing	mark
14	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fortunate	parataxis
15	about	about	ADV	_	14 sailing	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 noticed	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 noticed	nsubj
20	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sailing	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 light	det
22	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 noticed	obj
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 light	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 burned	nsubj
26	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 light	acl:relcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burned	obl
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 fire	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fire	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fire	amod
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burned	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fortunate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past				by sea	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sea=Location
2	is	past	those			fortunate, however property	tree rules
3	sail	gerund				about property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	notice	past	doll	a light	before sweetmeats = sweetmeat; time		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
5	burn	past	a light		night	like a great fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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