The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 172
Once more he strained his eyes to see if there was no place in which he could take shelter, and this time he caught sight of a small chapel in a little clearing.
Who acts: youth, place · What happens: strain, see, be, take, catch, sight · To what, where: eyes, shelter, place, sight, little clearing, small chapel
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, place), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 strained | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strained | nsubj |
| 4 | strained | strain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strained | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strained | advcl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 take | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 caught | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 caught | cc |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 caught | nsubj |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strained | conj |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 chapel | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 chapel | det |
| 29 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 chapel | amod |
| 30 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sight | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 clearing | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 clearing | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 clearing | amod |
| 34 | clearing | clearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strain | past | youth | youth's eyes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | youth not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | no place | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | could | youth | shelter | no place | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in which=Location | |||
| 5 | catch | past | youth | sight of a small chapel | a little clearing | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||
| 6 | sight | a small chapel | nom sight «cognition 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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