English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 40

The sun was shining into part of it, and yet all the rest was quite dark and shady.

Who acts: sun, rest · What happens: shine, be · To what, where: part

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, rest), 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	4 shining	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shining	aux
4	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 part	case
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shining	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 part	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dark	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dark	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 all	advmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 rest	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dark	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dark	cop
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 dark	advmod
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shining	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shady	cc
19	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dark	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	the sun	part of part		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	all rest		dark property	tree rules
3	be		all rest not said here			tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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