The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 61
After a long while he thought he saw a glimmer of light, but the light was neither that of the sun nor of the moon.
Who acts: fellow, light · What happens: think, see, be, glimmer · To what, where: glimmer, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 long | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 long | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 thought | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 glimmer | det |
| 10 | glimmer | glimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glimmer | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 that | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 that | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 that | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 that | cop |
| 18 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 that | cc:preconj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 long | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sun | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 that | nmod |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 moon | cc |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 moon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moon | det |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sun | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | fellow | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | fellow | a glimmer of light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimmer=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the light | that | of the sun nor the moon | tree rules | |||
| 4 | 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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