English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 8
Mrs. Abrahams remembers one occasion well when she nearly caught sight of Mr. Miacca, just after he had left her a gift; she saw his shadow in the shape of a bright light passing down the garden.
Who acts: Mrs., Miacca, bright light · What happens: remember, catch, leave, see, pass down, sight · To what, where: one occasion, sight, Mrs., shadow, shape, garden
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs., Miacca, bright light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 remembers | nsubj |
| 2 | Abrahams | Abrahams | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 occasion | nummod |
| 5 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembers | obj |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 remembers | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 caught | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 caught | advmod |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembers | advcl |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Miacca | case |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Miacca | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 left | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 left | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | aux |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 caught | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 gift | det |
| 23 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 saw | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembers | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 28 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saw | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 shape | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 shape | det |
| 31 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saw | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 light | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 light | det |
| 34 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 light | amod |
| 35 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shape | nmod |
| 36 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 light | acl |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 39 garden | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 garden | det |
| 39 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 passing | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | Mrs. | one occasion | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent occasion=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | past | Mrs. | sight of Miacca Mr. | nearly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | Miacca | Mrs. | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme gift=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Mrs. | Miacca's shadow | the shape of a bright light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | pass down | gerund | a bright light not said here | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | sight | Miacca Mr. | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | shadow | Miacca | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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