The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 49

In an instant the basket moved, but, to his horror, instead of going down, he felt himself being drawn upwards, and shortly after he beheld the faces of the old women.

Who acts: basket, horror, man · What happens: move, go down, feel, draw, behold · To what, where: instant, man, faces

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 (basket, horror, man), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moved	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 basket	det
5	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moved	nsubj
6	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 felt	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 horror	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 horror	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horror	nmod:poss
12	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 felt	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 going	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 horror	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 going	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 horror	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moved	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 felt	obj
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 drawn	aux:pass
23	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 felt	xcomp
24	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	23 drawn	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beheld	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beheld	cc
27	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	30 beheld	advmod
28	after	after	SCONJ	_	30 beheld	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 beheld	nsubj
30	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moved	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 faces	det
32	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 beheld	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 women	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 women	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 women	amod
36	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 faces	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past	the basket		a instant		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in instant=Trajectory
2	go down	gerund	man's horror not said here			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	feel	past	man's horror	man			tree rules
4	draw	gerund · passive	man not said here			upwards property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»
5	behold	past	man	the faces of the old women		shortly property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

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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