English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 4
At last they saw a light and made for it; it turned out to be a house.
Who acts: man, light · What happens: see, make, turn out, be · To what, where: light, last, house
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, light), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 turned | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 house | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 house | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | a light | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | participle | man not said here | for light | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for it=Asset | ||||
| 3 | turn out | past | light | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | light not said here | a house | 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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