The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 62

He looked eagerly at it, but found it was only a kind of pale cloud, which was all the light this strange underworld could boast.

Who acts: fellow, moon, kind, strange underworld · What happens: look, find, be, boast · To what, where: kind, light · 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, moon, kind, strange underworld), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kind	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kind	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 kind	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kind	det
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cloud	case
15	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cloud	amod
16	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 light	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 light	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 light	cop
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 light	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 light	det
22	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	conj
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 underworld	det
24	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 underworld	amod
25	underworld	underworld	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 boast	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 boast	aux
27	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 light	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	fellow		at moon; eagerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	find	past	fellow not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	moon	a kind and all light	of pale cloud	tree rules
4	is a	past	a kind and all light	all light		tree rules
5	boast speech: other	could	this strange underworld	all light not said here		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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