The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 59

The plant had disappeared and in its stead was a thick syrup, just as the book had said there would be.

What happens: disappear, be, say · To what, where: plant, thick syrup, stead, book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappeared	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disappeared	aux
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 syrup	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 stead	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 stead	nmod:poss
8	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 syrup	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 syrup	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 syrup	det
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 syrup	amod
12	syrup	syrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappeared	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 book	det
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 be	advcl
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 said	advmod
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 disappeared	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	disappear	past · perfect · passive	the plant		tree rules
2	is a	past	a thick syrup	plant's stead	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	the book	there	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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