The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 85
And in a moment a crowd of beautiful creatures, each one with a crown on her head, stood before her.
What happens: stand
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 20 stood | 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 | 20 stood | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crowd | det |
| 6 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moment | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 creatures | case |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creatures | amod |
| 9 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crowd | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crowd | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 crown | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crown | det |
| 15 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crown | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stood | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | before frog; moment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
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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