The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 35
At last he saw a light in the distance, which came from a miserable-looking little hut.
Who acts: Prince, distance · What happens: see, come, look · To what, where: light, last, looking little hut
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, distance), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 distance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 distance | det |
| 9 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 distance | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 hut | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hut | det |
| 15 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looking | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 miserable | punct |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 hut | amod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hut | amod |
| 19 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince | a light | last | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | come | past | the distance | a looking little hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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