The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 39

And as he spake the heroes became invisible to the people of the Earth, and were no more seen among them.

Who acts: hero, people · What happens: speak, become, not see · To what, where: heroes, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spake	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spake	nsubj
4	spake	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heroes	det
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spake	obj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 invisible	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Earth	det
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 people	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seen	cc
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
18	no	no	ADV	_	20 seen	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 seen	nsubj:pass
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 became	conj
21	among	among	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seen	obl:agent
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	hero	the heroes		tree rules
2	become	past			invisible property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not see	past · passive	people	more		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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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