The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 39

I will go and look for it,’ and he felt all round the walls of the pit till he found a very little hole in the roof of the pit, with a tiny glimmer of light at the far end of it.

Who acts: I, scorpion, light · What happens: go, look, feel, find, glimmer · To what, where: little hole, roof, far end

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, scorpion, light), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 look	cc
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 felt	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
13	all	all	ADV	_	16 walls	advmod
14	round	round	ADP	_	16 walls	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 walls	det
16	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 felt	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 pit	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pit	det
19	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walls	nmod
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 found	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 felt	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hole	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 little	advmod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hole	amod
26	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 roof	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 roof	det
29	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hole	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 pit	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pit	det
32	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 roof	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 glimmer	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 glimmer	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 glimmer	det
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 glimmer	amod
37	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 light	case
39	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 glimmer	nmod
40	at	at	ADP	_	43 end	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 end	det
42	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 end	amod
43	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 glimmer	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 end	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	I					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	infinitive	I not said here				for hole	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
3	feel	past	scorpion				round the walls of the pit	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	find	past	scorpion	a little hole	the roof of the pit		with a tiny glimmer of light at the far end of hole	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic
5	glimmer		light			at the far end of hole		nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=agent at=place

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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