The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 63

In a moment the small, slimy body disappeared, and in its place stood a beautiful beast with branching horns and slender legs, quivering with longing to be gone.

Who acts: small slimy body · What happens: disappear, stand, quiver, long, go · To what, where: beautiful beast, place

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small slimy body), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disappeared	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct
7	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disappeared	nsubj
9	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 place	nmod:poss
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 disappeared	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 beast	det
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beast	amod
18	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 horns	case
20	branching	branching	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 horns	compound
21	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 beast	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 legs	cc
23	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 legs	amod
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 horns	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 quivering	punct
26	quivering	quiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 stood	advcl
27	with	with	SCONJ	_	28 longing	mark
28	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 quivering	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	31 gone	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 gone	aux:pass
31	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 longing	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	the small slimy body			moment		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	the small slimy body not said here	a beautiful beast	body's place		with branching horns and slender legs	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beast=Theme in place=Destination
3	quiver	gerund	the small slimy body not said here					vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	long	gerund	the small slimy body not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	go	to-infinitive · passive	the small slimy body not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»

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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