The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 55
The evening light had quite faded, and the full moon was already shining down upon the forest, when the young man heard a slight rustling sound.
Who acts: evening light, full moon, young man · What happens: fade, shine down, hear · To what, where: forest, slight rustling sound
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening light, full moon, young man), 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 | 3 light | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | compound |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faded | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 faded | aux |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 faded | advmod |
| 6 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shining | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shining | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moon | det |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 moon | amod |
| 11 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shining | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shining | aux |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 shining | advmod |
| 14 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 faded | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 shining | advmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shining | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 heard | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shining | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sound | det |
| 26 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sound | amod |
| 27 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sound | compound |
| 28 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 faded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | past · perfect | the evening light | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | shine down | past · progressive | the full moon | the forest | down property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon forest=Location | |||
| 3 | hear | past | the young man | a slight rustling sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=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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