The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 109
In another moment something passed swiftly through the air and a lion stood before him.
Who acts: something · What happens: pass, stand · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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 | _ | 4 something | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 something | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | compound |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 something | acl |
| 6 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lion | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lion | det |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 air | conj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stood | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | the air and a lion | swiftly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through air=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | something | before least | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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