The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 46
When midnight came she saw afar off a little light, and thought, ‘Ah! if only I could reach that!’
Who acts: midnight, princess, I · What happens: come, see, think, reach · To what, where: afar, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midnight, princess, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | advcl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 light | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 light | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reach | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 reach | punct |
| 16 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 22 reach | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ah | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 only | mark |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 reach | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 reach | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 reach | aux |
| 22 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 reach | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 reach | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | princess | afar | off a little light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer afar=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | princess not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | could | I | that | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent that=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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