The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 79

Then the darkness cleared away from the king’s eyes, and the more the bird sang the more clearly did he see, till at last in the strange horse-shoer he recognised his youngest son.

Who acts: darkness, bird, king · What happens: clear away, sing, see, recognise · To what, where: eyes, youngest son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darkness, bird, king), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cleared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 darkness	det
3	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cleared	nsubj
4	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 cleared	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eyes	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cleared	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sang	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sang	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 more	det
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 sang	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sang	nsubj
17	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cleared	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 more	det
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 see	advmod
20	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	23 see	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sang	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 last	punct
25	till	till	ADP	_	27 last	case
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 see	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	33 shoer	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shoer	det
30	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shoer	amod
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shoer	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 horse	punct
33	shoer	shoer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 last	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 recognised	nsubj
35	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 shoer	acl:relcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 son	nmod:poss
37	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 son	amod
38	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 recognised	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cleared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear away	past	the darkness		the king's eyes	then	away property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source
2	sing speech: express	past	the bird					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past · do-support	king				clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	recognise	past	king	king's youngest son				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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