The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 36
In an instant, boat, people, and goods had vanished completely.
What happens: vanish · To what, where: goods, instant
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vanished | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boat | punct |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 instant | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 instant | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 vanished | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 vanished | cc |
| 10 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 vanished | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 vanished | aux |
| 12 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 12 vanished | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past · perfect · passive | goods | a instant and boat and people | completely 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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