The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 1

The woman had been surprised before at the disappearance of her food, but she was more astonished still when, instead of the plank, she beheld a baby.

Who acts: woman, food · What happens: surprise, be, behold, disappear · To what, where: woman, baby

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, food), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 surprised	aux:pass
5	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 disappearance	case
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 disappearance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 disappearance	det
9	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 food	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disappearance	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 astonished	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 astonished	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 astonished	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 astonished	cop
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 astonished	advmod
18	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surprised	conj
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 when	advmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 astonished	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 plank	punct
22	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	25 plank	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 instead	fixed
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 plank	det
25	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 astonished	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 beheld	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 beheld	nsubj
28	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 baby	det
30	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beheld	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	surprise	past · perfect · passive		the woman	before the disappearance of woman's food		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	is	past	woman			astonished property	tree rules
3	behold	past	woman	a baby			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus
4	disappear		woman's food				nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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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