The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 25
Then he drew his knife, and held it up towards the sun, and directly there shone such a glory that the whole meadow was bathed in it.
Who acts: man · What happens: draw, hold up, shine, bath · To what, where: knife, glory, whole meadow
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 held | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 held | cc |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 held | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 held | compound:prt |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shone | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shone | cc |
| 16 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 17 there | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 shone | advmod |
| 18 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 drew | conj |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 glory | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 glory | det |
| 21 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shone | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 bathed | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 meadow | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 meadow | amod |
| 25 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bathed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bathed | aux:pass |
| 27 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 glory | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bathed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | man | man's knife | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold up | past | man not said here | knife | towards the sun | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 3 | shine | participle | man not said here | such glory | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glory=Theme | |||
| 4 | bath | past · passive | the whole meadow | knife | tree rules |
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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