The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 78

He had not gone far when a puff of wind unfolded the cloak, and its brightness shed gleams across the water.

Who acts: Pinkel, brightness shed · What happens: not go, unfold, gleam, puff · To what, where: puff, water, wind

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel, brightness shed), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 unfolded	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 puff	det
8	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 unfolded	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 wind	case
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 puff	nmod
11	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cloak	det
13	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 unfolded	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gleams	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gleams	cc
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shed	nmod:poss
17	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shed	compound
18	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gleams	nsubj
19	gleams	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gleams	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Pinkel			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	unfold	participle · passive		a puff of wind			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient cloak=Result
3	gleam	present	puff's brightness shed		the water		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	puff			wind			nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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