The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 7

For some time he walked on in pitch darkness, but he went steadily on, and by-and-by a glimmer of light shot across the floor, and he heard a voice calling, ‘Virgilius!

Who acts: boy, voice, light · What happens: walk on, go, shoot, hear, call, glimmer · To what, where: pitch darkness, light, floor, voice, Virgilius · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, voice, 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 walked	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 darkness	case
8	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 darkness	compound
9	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	conj
14	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	15 on	advmod
15	on	on	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 glimmer	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 glimmer	cc
18	by	by	ADP	_	24 glimmer	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 glimmer	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 glimmer	cc
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 glimmer	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 glimmer	det
24	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 light	case
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glimmer	nmod
27	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 light	acl
28	across	across	ADP	_	30 floor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 floor	det
30	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shot	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 heard	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	nsubj
34	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 voice	det
36	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	obj
37	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 heard	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Virgilius	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 Virgilius	punct
40	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 calling	obj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	boy			pitch darkness	time	by a glimmer of light	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory
2	go	past	boy						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shoot	participle		light not said here		the floor			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	boy	a voice					tree rules
5	call	gerund	a voice not said here		Virgilius				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent virgilius=Recipient
6	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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