The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 92
In the evening, when the sun is getting low, and all the midges are beginning to bite, Peter saw a wide heath stretching before him.
Who acts: sun, midges, Peter, wide heath · What happens: get, begin, bite, see, stretch · To what, where: wide heath
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, midges, Peter, wide heath), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 getting | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 getting | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 getting | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 getting | aux |
| 9 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 getting | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beginning | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beginning | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 midges | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 midges | det |
| 15 | midges | midge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 beginning | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 beginning | aux |
| 17 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 getting | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bite | mark |
| 19 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 beginning | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 21 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 getting | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 heath | det |
| 24 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heath | amod |
| 25 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | stretching | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 heath | acl |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stretching | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | the sun | evening | low property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | begin | present · progressive | all midges | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bite | to-infinitive | all midges not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Peter | a wide heath | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heath=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stretch | gerund | a wide heath not said here | before Peter | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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