The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 59
Then in an instant he had vanished, as if the earth had swallowed him up.
Who acts: man · What happens: vanish, swallow up · To what, where: instant, earth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 vanished | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vanished | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 vanished | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vanished | aux |
| 7 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swallowed | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 swallowed | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 swallowed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 swallowed | aux |
| 14 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 vanished | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swallowed | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past · perfect | man | a instant | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | swallow up a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the earth | 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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