The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 62

Then the gold and silver staffs seemed to spring from the earth before him, but this time also he overcame; and though the fruit from the magic tree almost touched his mouth, he brushed it aside and went steadily on.

Who acts: gold, man, fruit · What happens: seem, overcome, touch, brush, go · To what, where: earth, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, man, fruit), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 seemed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 staffs	cc
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 staffs	compound
6	staffs	staff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gold	conj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 spring	case
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	obl
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seemed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 overcame	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 overcame	cc
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 overcame	obl:unmarked
19	also	also	ADV	_	21 overcame	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 overcame	nsubj
21	overcame	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 touched	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 touched	cc
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 touched	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fruit	det
26	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 touched	nsubj
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 tree	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
29	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tree	compound
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fruit	nmod
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 touched	advmod
32	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	parataxis
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mouth	nmod:poss
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 touched	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 brushed	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 brushed	nsubj
37	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 brushed	obj
39	aside	aside	ADV	_	37 brushed	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 brushed	conj
42	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	43 on	advmod
43	on	on	ADV	_	41 went	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the gold and silver staffs		the earth	before man; then; spring		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	overcome	past	man			time		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	touch	past	the fruit from the magic tree	man's mouth			almost property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Co-Theme
4	brush	past	man	mouth			aside property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	go	past	man not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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