English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 43
It was not exactly dark, but a kind of twilight or gloaming.
Who acts: woe · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woe), 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:pg7439:1107): 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dark | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dark | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dark | advmod |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 dark | advmod |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kind | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 kind | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kind | det |
| 9 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dark | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 twilight | case |
| 11 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 gloaming | cc |
| 13 | gloaming | gloaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 twilight | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | woe | dark, exactly property | 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: 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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