The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 68
And one evening, as the young man leaned from the balcony, he saw a bright light shining on the mountain.
Who acts: young man, man, bright light · What happens: learn, see, shine · To what, where: one evening, balcony, bright light, mountain
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 (young man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 evening | nummod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaned | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 leaned | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaned | nsubj |
| 9 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 evening | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 balcony | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 balcony | det |
| 12 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 17 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | amod |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 light | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 mountain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mountain | det |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shining | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the young man | one evening not said here | the balcony | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent evening=Topic from balcony=Source | |||
| 2 | see | past | man | a bright light | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | shine | gerund | a bright light not said here | the mountain | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=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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