The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 87
In an instant the transformation took place, and two creatures, neither beast nor human stood before the chief.
Who acts: transformation, two creatures · What happens: take, stand · To what, where: place, instant, chief
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (transformation, two creatures), 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 took | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 transformation | det |
| 5 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 creatures | nummod |
| 11 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beast | punct |
| 13 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 beast | cc:preconj |
| 14 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 creatures | appos |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 human | cc |
| 16 | human | human | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beast | conj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 chief | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chief | det |
| 20 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the transformation | place | a instant | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in instant=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | two creatures | the chief | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before chief=Location |
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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