The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 13

Half the sun was still above the mountain and half was behind it when Joringel looked through the trees and saw the old wall of the castle quite near them.

Who acts: sun, Joringel · What happens: be, look, see · To what, where: mountain, half, old wall

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Joringel), 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	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 sun	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mountain	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	8 mountain	advmod
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 mountain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 half	cc
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 mountain	conj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 it	cop
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 half	nmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 looked	advmod
15	Joringel	Joringel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mountain	advcl
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 trees	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wall	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wall	amod
24	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 castle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 castle	det
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wall	nmod
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 them	advmod
29	near	near	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 castle	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mountain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	half sun		the mountain and half	still		tree rules
2	is	past			half			tree rules
3	look	past	Joringel				through the trees	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through tree=Theme
4	see	past	Joringel not said here	the old wall of the castle near trees				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=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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