The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 61

The sun was just setting, and its last rays lit up a large city they were approaching.

Who acts: sun, last rays, rays · What happens: set, lit up, approach, ray · To what, where: large city

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, last rays, rays), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 setting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 setting	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 setting	advmod
5	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lit	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lit	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rays	nmod:poss
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rays	amod
10	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lit	nsubj
11	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 setting	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 lit	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 city	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 city	amod
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lit	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 approaching	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 approaching	aux
18	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 city	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 setting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the sun		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lit up	participle	sun's last rays	a large city	tree rules
3	approach	past · progressive	rays = ray	a large city not said here	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
4	ray		sun		nom ray «phenomenon 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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