The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 23
On the first landing a glimmer of light came through a slit in the wall, and he saw a tiny man sitting there, without a head.
Who acts: glimmer, tiny man, light · What happens: come, see, sit, glimmer · To what, where: first landing, tiny man
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glimmer, tiny man, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 landing | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 landing | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 landing | amod |
| 4 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 glimmer | det |
| 6 | glimmer | glimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 light | case |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glimmer | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 slit | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 slit | det |
| 12 | slit | slit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slit | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 man | acl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sitting | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 head | punct |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 head | det |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a glimmer of light | the first landing | through a slit in the wall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through slit=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | glimmer | a tiny man | without a head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | a tiny man not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | glimmer | light | nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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