The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 41

These two lived happy and contentedly for a long while, when one evening, as the young man was looking from the window, he saw on a mountain that lay out beyond the town a great bright light.

Who acts: two, young man, man, that · What happens: live, look, see, lie out · To what, where: great bright light, mountain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, young man, man, that), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 contentedly	cc
6	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	3 lived	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 while	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 while	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 while	amod
10	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 evening	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 evening	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 evening	nummod
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 while	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looking	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 looking	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looking	aux
21	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 lived	advcl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 window	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 window	det
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 mountain	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mountain	det
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 lay	nsubj
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	ccomp
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 lay	compound:prt
34	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	36 town	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 town	det
36	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 light	det
38	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 light	amod
39	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 light	amod
40	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	this two			while	happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past · progressive	the young man				from the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from window=Theme
3	see	past	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	lie out	past	that	a great bright light	a mountain		beyond the town	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=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 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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