The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 7

After passing some hours of the night, not without considerable fear and trembling, he noticed a light shining at a little distance, and hoping it might proceed from some house where he could find a better shelter than in the top of the tree, he cautiously descended and went towards the light.

Who acts: tailor, light, hoping · What happens: pass, notice, shine, hope, proceed, find · To what, where: light, house, better shelter

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, light, hoping), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 passing	mark
2	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 noticed	advcl
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 hours	det
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hours	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fear	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fear	advmod
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 fear	case
11	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fear	amod
12	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 trembling	cc
14	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fear	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 passing	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 noticed	nsubj
17	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 light	det
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 noticed	obj
20	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 light	acl
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 distance	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 distance	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 distance	amod
24	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shining	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 proceed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 proceed	cc
27	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 proceed	csubj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hoping	obj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 proceed	aux
30	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 noticed	parataxis
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 proceed	obl
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 find	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 find	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 house	acl:relcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 shelter	det
39	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 shelter	amod
40	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	obj
41	than	than	ADP	_	44 top	case
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 top	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 top	det
44	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 tree	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 tree	det
47	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 top	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 descended	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 descended	nsubj
50	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	51 descended	advmod
51	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 noticed	parataxis
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 went	cc
53	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 descended	conj
54	towards	towards	ADP	_	56 light	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 light	det
56	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 went	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	tailor not said here			hour	without considerable fear and trembling	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	notice	past	tailor	a light				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	shine	gerund	a light not said here				at a little distance	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location
4	hope	gerund		light				tree rules
5	proceed	might	hoping		some house			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	find	could	tailor	a better shelter			than the top of the tree	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic
7	descend	past	tailor				cautiously property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go	past	tailor not said here		the light			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards light=Initial_Location

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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