The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 44

It appeared but a few minutes ago that he had descended, passed along a few steps to the place where he had peeped beyond the veil, and returned again after perhaps five minutes of that wonderful view!

Who acts: It, King · What happens: appear, descend, pass, peep, return

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, King), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 ago	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 minutes	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 minutes	amod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ago	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 appeared	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 descended	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 descended	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 descended	aux
11	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 appeared	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
13	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 descended	conj
14	along	along	ADP	_	17 steps	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 steps	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 steps	amod
17	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 passed	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 steps	nmod
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 peeped	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 peeped	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 peeped	aux
24	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 place	acl:relcl
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	27 veil	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 veil	det
27	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 peeped	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 returned	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 returned	cc
30	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appeared	conj
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 returned	advmod
32	after	after	ADP	_	35 minutes	case
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 five	advmod
34	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 minutes	nummod
35	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 returned	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 view	case
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 view	det
38	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 view	amod
39	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 minutes	nmod
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	It			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	descend	past · perfect	King			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pass	participle	King not said here		along a few steps to the place	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along step=Location
4	peep	past · perfect	King		beyond the veil	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent beyond veil=Theme
5	return	past		again; minute		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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