The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 177

At last one day signs of houses appeared, far, far off.

What happens: appear, sign · To what, where: last day signs, houses

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 signs	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 signs	amod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signs	compound
5	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appeared	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 houses	case
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 signs	nmod
8	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 far	punct
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 appeared	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 off	punct
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 off	advmod
13	off	off	ADV	_	10 far	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past				last day signs of houses		far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sign=Location
2	sign			houses					nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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