The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 55

At first it was quite dark, and the flaming torch only lit up dirty grey stone walls.

Who acts: wood · What happens: be, lit up · To what, where: flaming torch

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 dark	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dark	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 dark	advmod
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lit	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lit	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 torch	det
10	flaming	flaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 torch	compound
11	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lit	nsubj:pass
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 lit	advmod
13	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dark	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 lit	compound:prt
15	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 walls	amod
16	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 walls	amod
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walls	compound
18	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lit	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wood					dark property	tree rules
2	lit up	participle · passive		the flaming torch					tree rules

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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