The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 105
When it was silent, the light of day began to break in through the windows.
Who acts: church, light · What happens: be, begin, break in, light · To what, where: windows, day
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 silent | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 silent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | cop |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 light | nmod |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 break | mark |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 break | compound:prt |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 windows | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 windows | det |
| 16 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 break | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | church | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the light of day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | break in | to-infinitive | the light of day not said here | the windows | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | ||||
| 4 | light | day | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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