The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 76

And in a moment the branching horns and beautiful shape had vanished, and a tiny brown ant, invisible to all who did not look closely, was climbing up the walls.

Who acts: branching horns · What happens: vanish, not look, climb up · To what, where: tiny brown ant, walls

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 (branching horns), 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	_	12 vanished	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horns	det
6	branching	branching	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horns	compound
7	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 vanished	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shape	cc
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shape	amod
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horns	conj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vanished	aux
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ant	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ant	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ant	det
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ant	amod
17	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ant	amod
18	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 invisible	punct
20	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ant	amod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 invisible	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 look	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 look	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 look	advmod
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 all	acl:relcl
27	closely	closely	ADV	_	26 look	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 climbing	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 climbing	aux
30	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 vanished	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 climbing	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 walls	det
33	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 climbing	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect	the branching horns and beautiful shape	a tiny brown ant	moment		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not look	past · do-support				closely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	climb up	past · progressive	the branching horns and beautiful shape not said here	the walls			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme

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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