The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 8
But he went on, and at last he saw a light far away in the wood.
Who acts: husbandman · What happens: go on, see · To what, where: light, last
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husbandman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 away | advmod |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 saw | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 away | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | husbandman | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | husbandman | a light | last | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
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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