The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 95
The moon was shining brightly above his head, and close by stood two headless dwarfs, talking angrily.
Who acts: moon · What happens: shine, stand, talk · To what, where: head, two headless dwarfs
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 (moon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | aux |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 8 head | advmod |
| 6 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 close | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 close | cc |
| 11 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shining | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 stood | mark |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 close | advcl |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 dwarfs | nummod |
| 15 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dwarfs | amod |
| 16 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 talking | punct |
| 18 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shining | conj |
| 19 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 18 talking | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past · progressive | the moon | moon's head | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above head=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the moon not said here | two headless dwarfs | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwarf=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | the moon not said here | angrily property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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