The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 139
And, stepping to the window, he saw the lances gleam in the sunlight and the armour and weapons glitter.
Who acts: King, lances, weapons · What happens: step, see, gleam, glitter · To what, where: window, sunlight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, lances, weapons), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepping | punct |
| 3 | stepping | step | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepping | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepping | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lances | det |
| 11 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gleam | nsubj |
| 12 | gleam | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sunlight | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sunlight | det |
| 15 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gleam | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 armour | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 armour | det |
| 18 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sunlight | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glitter | cc |
| 20 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 glitter | nsubj |
| 21 | glitter | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gleam | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | gerund | the window | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination | |||||
| 2 | see | past | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gleam | present | the lances | the sunlight and the armour | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location | ||||
| 4 | glitter | present | weapons | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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