The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 124
At that instant, however, the head of the elder appeared above the rock, brought upwards by the magic line.
Who acts: head · What happens: appear, bring · To what, where: instant, rock
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 instant | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 elder | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 elder | det |
| 11 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 rock | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rock | det |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 rock | acl |
| 18 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 line | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 line | det |
| 21 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 line | amod |
| 22 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the head of the elder | that instant | above the rock; however property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at instant=Location | |||
| 2 | bring | participle | the rock not said here | by the magic line; upwards property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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