The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 8

He had only gone about a stone’s throw after making this discovery when he noticed a light shining through the trees.

Who acts: John, light, stone · What happens: go, make, notice, shine, throw · To what, where: discovery, light, trees

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, light, stone), 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	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 throw	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throw	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 stone	case
9	throw	throw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 making	mark
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gone	advcl
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 discovery	det
13	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	obj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 noticed	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 noticed	nsubj
16	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 making	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 noticed	obj
19	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 light	acl
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 trees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shining	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	John			about a stone's throw	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about throw=Location
2	make	gerund	John not said here	this discovery			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset discovery=Product
3	notice	past	John	a light			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
4	shine	gerund	a light not said here		the trees		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location
5	throw		a stone				nom throw «act transitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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