The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 90

So the lightning disappeared into the cloud for a moment to gather up fresh strength, and then came rushing down, right upon the rock, which it sent flying in all directions, and took the wolverine’s coat so neatly that, though it was torn into tiny shreds, the wolverine himself was quite unharmed.

Who acts: lightning, strength, rock, Wolverine · What happens: disappear, gather up, come, rush down, send, fly · To what, where: cloud, fresh strength, rock, directions, coat, tiny shreds

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning, strength, rock, Wolverine), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 disappeared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lightning	det
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappeared	nsubj
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cloud	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappeared	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 moment	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappeared	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 gather	mark
12	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 disappeared	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 gather	compound:prt
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 strength	amod
15	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gather	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 came	advmod
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disappeared	conj
20	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 came	xcomp
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 rushing	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rock	punct
23	right	right	ADV	_	26 rock	advmod
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 rock	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rock	det
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rushing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sent	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sent	obj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sent	nsubj
30	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 rock	conj
31	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 sent	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 directions	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 directions	det
34	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 flying	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 took	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 took	cc
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disappeared	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wolverine	det
39	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 coat	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 wolverine	case
41	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 took	obj
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 neatly	advmod
43	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	37 took	advmod
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 took	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 torn	punct
46	though	though	SCONJ	_	49 torn	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 torn	nsubj:pass
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 torn	aux:pass
49	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 took	conj
50	into	into	ADP	_	52 shreds	case
51	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 shreds	amod
52	shreds	shred	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 torn	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 wolverine	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 wolverine	det
55	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 shreds	appos
56	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	59 unharmed	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 unharmed	cop
58	quite	quite	ADV	_	59 unharmed	advmod
59	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 wolverine	acl:relcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	the lightning		the cloud	moment		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather up	to-infinitive	the lightning not said here	fresh strength				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
3	come	past	the lightning not said here			then		tree rules
4	rush down	gerund	the lightning not said here		the rock		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rock=Trajectory
5	send	past	strength	the rock				tree rules
6	fly	gerund	the rock not said here		all directions			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
7	take	past		the wolverine's coat			neatly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument coat=Theme that=Destination
8	tear	past · passive		coat			into tiny shreds result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into shred=Result
9	is	past	Wolverine	the wolverine not said here			unharmed property	tree rules

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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