The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 5

Suddenly he beheld in the moonlight a form with a wreath of roses on her head rise out of the sea below him and step on to the sands, holding out her arms as she did so towards the palace.

Who acts: length, she · What happens: behold, rise, step on, hold out, do · To what, where: form, moonlight, sea, sands, arms

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, she), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 beheld	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beheld	nsubj
3	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 moonlight	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moonlight	det
6	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 form	det
8	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wreath	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wreath	det
11	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rise	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 roses	case
13	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wreath	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rise	compound
17	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 beheld	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 sea	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sea	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rise	obl
22	below	below	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sea	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 step	cc
25	step	step	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 rise	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	25 step	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 sands	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sands	det
29	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 step	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 holding	punct
31	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 step	advcl
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 holding	compound:prt
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 arms	nmod:poss
34	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 holding	obj
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 did	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 did	nsubj
37	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 holding	advcl
38	so	so	ADV	_	37 did	advmod
39	towards	towards	ADP	_	41 palace	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 palace	det
41	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 did	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	past	length	a form	the moonlight	suddenly property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus
2	rise	infinitive			the sea below length	with a wreath of roses	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=Location
3	step on	infinitive			the sands		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sand=Destination
4	hold out	gerund		her arms			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	do	past	she			towards the palace	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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