The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 153

The mole took a piece of rotten wood in his mouth, for that glows like fire in the dark, and went in front, lighting them through the long dark passage.

Who acts: mole, that · What happens: take, glow, go, light · To what, where: piece, mouth, dark, front, pieces, long dark passage

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mole, that), 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 mole	det
2	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 piece	det
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouth	nmod:poss
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 glows	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 glows	mark
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 glows	nsubj
15	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 fire	case
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glows	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dark	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dark	det
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glows	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 front	case
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lighting	punct
27	lighting	light	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 went	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lighting	obj
29	through	through	ADP	_	33 passage	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 passage	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 passage	amod
32	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 passage	amod
33	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lighting	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the mole	a piece of rotten wood	mole's mouth		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Value in mouth=Location
2	glow	present	that		the dark	like fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location
3	go	past	the mole not said here		front		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location
4	light	gerund	the mole not said here	pieces = piece	the long dark passage		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product

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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