The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 155
The moon was streaming in at the open window; but that, too, was silent, quite silent.
Who acts: moon, streaming · What happens: stream, be · To what, where: that, open window
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, streaming), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 streaming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 streaming | aux |
| 4 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 silent | csubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 streaming | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 window | amod |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 streaming | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 that | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 streaming | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 streaming | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 streaming | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 silent | cop |
| 17 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 silent | punct |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 silent | advmod |
| 20 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 silent | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | past · progressive | the moon | that | the open window | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | streaming | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | streaming not said here | 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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