The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 46

The distance was greater than he thought, and it was dark before he reached the foot of the mountain; indeed, he could not have found the road at all had it not been for the bright light, which shone like the moon on his path.

Who acts: distance, man, bright light · What happens: be, think, reach, not find, have, not be · To what, where: foot, road, path · 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 (distance, man, bright 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 distance	det
2	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greater	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 greater	cop
4	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 thought	advmod
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 thought	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dark	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dark	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dark	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dark	cop
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	ccomp
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 reached	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reached	nsubj
15	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dark	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foot	det
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reached	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mountain	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mountain	det
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 foot	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	28 found	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 indeed	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 found	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 found	advmod
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 found	aux
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 thought	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 road	det
30	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 had	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 had	advmod
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	obj
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 light	advmod
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 light	cop
37	for	for	ADP	_	40 light	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 light	det
39	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 light	amod
40	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 shone	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 shone	nsubj
43	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 light	parataxis
44	like	like	ADP	_	46 moon	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 moon	det
46	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 shone	obl
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 path	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 path	nmod:poss
49	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 shone	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the distance			great property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	man				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	distance			dark property	tree rules
4	reach	past	man	the foot of the mountain			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
5	not find	could · perfect	man	the road		indeed property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic
6	have	past	man not said here	road			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	not is	participle				for the bright light	tree rules
8	shine	past	the bright light		man's path	like the moon	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location

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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