The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 92
But the moment he stretched out his hand it stopped and slid quietly into the scabbard.
Who acts: moment, dream · What happens: stretch out, stop, slide · To what, where: hand, scabbard
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, dream), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stretched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stretched | nsubj |
| 5 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 stretched | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretched | obj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hand | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slid | cc |
| 12 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stopped | conj |
| 13 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 12 slid | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 scabbard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 scabbard | det |
| 16 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | the moment | Boy's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | dream | Boy's hand not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality hand=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | slide | past | dream not said here | the scabbard | quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into scabbard=Destination |
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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