The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 7

At last, after many days, a light seemed to come to him out of the darkness.

Who acts: light · What happens: seem, come · To what, where: light, darkness

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	At	at	ADP	_	6 days	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seemed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 come	mark
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seemed	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	obl
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 darkness	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 darkness	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 darkness	det
18	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	a light				day		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	come	to-infinitive	a light not said here		light	the darkness			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location out darkness=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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