The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 28

But now it seemed her turn to feel afraid, for she paused an instant while he pressed forward, still holding the pistol above his head, prepared to strike.

Who acts: it, figure, club · What happens: seem, feel, pause, press forward, hold, prepare · To what, where: turn, instant, pistol, head

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, figure, club), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 seemed	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seemed	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 turn	nmod:poss
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 feel	mark
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feel	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 paused	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 paused	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 paused	nsubj
13	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 instant	det
15	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 paused	obj
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 pressed	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pressed	nsubj
18	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 paused	advcl
19	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 pressed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 holding	punct
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 holding	advmod
22	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 pressed	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pistol	det
24	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 holding	obj
25	above	above	ADP	_	27 head	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pistol	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 prepared	punct
29	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 pressed	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 strike	mark
31	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 prepared	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it	figure's turn		now		tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive					afraid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	pause	past	figure	a instant				tree rules
4	press forward	past	club				forward property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	hold	gerund	club not said here	the pistol	club's head	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme above head=Location
6	prepare	participle	club not said here					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
7	strike not said to happen	to-infinitive	club not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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