The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 36
The moon was shining brightly, and lighted him to the lake where he could bathe his poor broken legs.
Who acts: moon · What happens: shine, light, bathe · To what, where: moon, poor broken legs
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | aux |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 4 shining | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lighted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lighted | cc |
| 8 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lighted | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lighted | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 bathe | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bathe | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bathe | aux |
| 16 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lake | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 legs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 legs | amod |
| 19 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 legs | amod |
| 20 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bathe | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past · progressive | the moon | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | light | past | the moon not said here | moon | to the lake | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | |||
| 3 | bathe | could | moon | moon's poor broken legs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Destination |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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