The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 84
After some time Petru saw something white rise up out of the red of the sky, and when he drew nearer he saw it was a castle, and so splendid that his eyes were dazzled when they looked at it.
Who acts: Petru, something, light, eyes · What happens: see, rise up, draw, be, dazzle, look · To what, where: red, castle, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, something, light, eyes), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 rise | nsubj |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 something | amod |
| 8 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 rise | compound:prt |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 red | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 red | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 red | det |
| 13 | red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rise | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 red | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 drew | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drew | nsubj |
| 21 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saw | advcl |
| 22 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 drew | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 castle | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 castle | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 castle | det |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 splendid | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 splendid | cc |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 splendid | advmod |
| 32 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 dazzled | mark |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 dazzled | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 37 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 splendid | advcl |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 looked | advmod |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 looked | nsubj |
| 40 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 dazzled | advcl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 looked | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Petru | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise up | present | something | the red of the sky | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out red=Location | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Petru | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Petru | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | light | a castle | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | dazzle | past · passive | Petru's eyes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | look | past | eyes = eye | at light | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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 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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