The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 154

They passed through a long dark passage till at length a bright ray of light shone before them through the chinks of a half-ruined wall.

Who acts: storks, bright ray · What happens: pass, shine, ruin, ray · To what, where: long dark passage, length, light

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storks, bright ray), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:484): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	7 passage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 passage	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 passage	amod
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 passage	amod
7	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 shone	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 length	case
10	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shone	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ray	det
12	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ray	amod
13	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shone	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 light	case
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ray	nmod
16	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	advcl
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shone	obl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 chinks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chinks	det
21	chinks	chink	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shone	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 wall	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wall	det
24	half	half	ADV	_	26 ruined	advmod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 half	punct
26	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 wall	amod
27	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chinks	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	storks = stork		a long dark passage			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through passage=Location
2	shine	past	a bright ray of light		length	before storks = stork	through the chinks of a ruined wall	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
3	ruin	participle					half property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	ray			light				nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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