The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 5

At first all seemed dark, but at length he noticed a tiny spark far, far off, and, plucking up his spirits, he at once went in search of it.

Who acts: guardian · What happens: seem, notice, pluck up, go, search · To what, where: tiny spark, length, spirits, search

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 seemed	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 seemed	advmod
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 noticed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 noticed	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 length	case
9	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 noticed	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 noticed	nsubj
11	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 spark	det
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spark	amod
14	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 noticed	obj
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 noticed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 off	punct
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 off	advmod
18	off	off	ADV	_	15 far	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 plucking	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plucking	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 plucking	punct
22	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 noticed	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 plucking	compound:prt
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 spirits	nmod:poss
25	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plucking	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
28	at	at	SCONJ	_	30 went	mark
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 went	advmod
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 search	case
32	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 search	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past				dark property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	notice	past	guardian	a tiny spark	length	far property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer spark=Stimulus
3	pluck up	gerund	guardian not said here	guardian's spirits			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient
4	go	past	guardian		search of search	once property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
5	search			search			nom search «act 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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