The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 36

It was not long before he began to catch glimpses of his native land, and he drew rein near a bridge, the better to look at it.

Who acts: ground, Birscha · What happens: not be, begin, catch, draw, look, glimpse · To what, where: glimpses, rein, bridge, native land

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground, Birscha), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 began	advmod
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 began	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 catch	mark
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	glimpses	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 catch	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 land	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 land	nmod:poss
13	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 land	amod
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glimpses	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drew	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drew	nsubj
18	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
19	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	obj
20	near	near	ADP	_	22 bridge	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bridge	det
22	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 better	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 better	det
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 drew	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 look	mark
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 better	csubj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 look	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	ground			long property	tree rules
2	begin	past	Birscha				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	catch	to-infinitive	Birscha not said here	glimpses of Birscha's native land			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme
4	draw	past	Birscha	rein	a bridge		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive				at ground	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
6	glimpse			Birscha's native land			nom glimpse «act 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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