The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 27

For some time he stumbled along, keeping to the path as well as he could in the darkness, and just as he was almost wearied out he saw before him a gleam of light.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: stumble, keep, weary out, see · To what, where: Prince, gleam

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Prince), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stumbled	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stumbled	nsubj
5	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 stumbled	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keeping	punct
8	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stumbled	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 path	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeping	obl
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	16 could	cc
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 as	fixed
14	as	as	ADP	_	12 as	fixed
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 could	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 keeping	aux
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 darkness	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 darkness	det
19	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 could	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wearied	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wearied	cc
22	just	just	ADV	_	27 wearied	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 wearied	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wearied	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wearied	aux:pass
26	almost	almost	ADV	_	27 wearied	advmod
27	wearied	weary	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 saw	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 wearied	compound:prt
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stumbled	conj
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	obl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 gleam	det
34	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saw	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 light	case
36	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gleam	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stumble	past	Prince		time	along property	tree rules
2	keep	could	Prince not said here			to the path	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	weary out	past · passive		Prince		almost property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	see	past	Prince	a gleam of light	before Grotto		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gleam=Stimulus

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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