The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 6

The night was nearly half over before he reached the spark, which turned out to be a big fire, and by the fire a man was sleeping who was so tall he might have been a giant.

Who acts: night, guardian, spark, man · What happens: be, reach, turn out, sleep · To what, where: spark, big fire, giant

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 (night, guardian, spark, man), 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	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 over	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 half	advmod
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	9 reached	advmod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spark	det
11	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 turned	nsubj
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 spark	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 turned	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	20 fire	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 fire	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fire	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fire	amod
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sleeping	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sleeping	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sleeping	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sleeping	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sleeping	aux
29	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 reached	advcl
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 tall	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tall	cop
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 tall	advmod
33	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sleeping	ccomp
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 giant	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 giant	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 giant	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 giant	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 giant	det
39	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tall	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the night		half, over property	tree rules
2	reach	past	guardian	the spark		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spark=Theme
3	turn out	past	the spark			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	the spark not said here	a big fire		tree rules
5	sleep	past · progressive	a man		by the fire	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past			tall property	tree rules
7	is a	might · perfect	guardian	a giant		tree rules

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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