The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 176
The full moon lighted up the weird scene, and the young warrior gazed with astonishment, taking great care to keep still, lest he should be discovered.
Who acts: full moon · What happens: light up, gaze, take, keep, discover · To what, where: weird scene, full moon, great care, warrior
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 (full 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 | 3 moon | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moon | amod |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gazed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 moon | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 lighted | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 scene | det |
| 7 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scene | amod |
| 8 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lighted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gazed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gazed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 warrior | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warrior | amod |
| 13 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gazed | nsubj |
| 14 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 astonishment | case |
| 16 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gazed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taking | punct |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 gazed | advcl |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 care | amod |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 taking | advcl |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 keep | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 discovered | punct |
| 25 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 29 discovered | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 discovered | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 discovered | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 discovered | aux:pass |
| 29 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 keep | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light up | participle | the full moon not said here | the weird scene | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Product | ||||
| 2 | gaze | participle · passive | the full moon | with astonishment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | great care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | discover | should · passive | warrior | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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