The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 4
He climbed a hill and looked about him to see if there was no light shining from a window.
Who acts: guardian, light · What happens: climb, look, see, be, shine · To what, where: hill, window
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guardian, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hill | det |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 looked | advcl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 was | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 light | det |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 light | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shining | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | guardian | a hill | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | guardian not said here | about guardian | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | guardian not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | no light | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shine | gerund | no light not said here | a window | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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