The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 133

When he got to the place where the light had come from, he saw a wretched little cottage, and through a small pane of glass he saw a couple of old folks inside.

Who acts: Halvor, light · What happens: get, come, see · To what, where: wretched little cottage, small pane

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 come	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 place	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	11 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cottage	det
17	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cottage	amod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cottage	amod
19	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 saw	cc
22	through	through	ADP	_	25 pane	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pane	det
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pane	amod
25	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 glass	case
27	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pane	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 couple	det
31	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 inside	obl:unmarked
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 folks	case
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 folks	amod
34	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 couple	nmod
35	inside	inside	ADV	_	29 saw	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Halvor			to the place result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
2	come	past · perfect	the light				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	Halvor	a wretched little cottage			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cottage=Stimulus
4	see	past	Halvor		a small pane of glass	inside property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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