The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 59

Late in the evening he caught sight of it, and it was very much more magnificent than either of the others.

Who acts: Halvor, body · What happens: catch, be, sight · To what, where: sight, body

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, body), 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	Late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 evening	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 evening	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evening	det
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obl:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	nsubj
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sight	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 magnificent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 magnificent	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 magnificent	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 magnificent	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 magnificent	advmod
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 caught	advcl
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 either	case
19	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	17 magnificent	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 others	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 others	det
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 either	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Halvor	sight of body	evening		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	is	past	body			than either; magnificent property	tree rules
3	sight			body			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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