The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 28

When once she was safely over the side all became still in a moment, and she slid down the rock so fast that it was only a wonder that she did not land in the chasm.

Who acts: four, rock · What happens: be, become, slide down, not land · To what, where: side, rock, wonder, chasm

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four, rock), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 became	advmod
2	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 side	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 side	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 side	cop
5	safely	safely	ADV	_	8 side	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	advcl
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 became	advmod
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	still	still	ADV	_	10 became	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 slid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 slid	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 slid	nsubj
18	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 became	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 slid	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rock	det
21	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slid	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 fast	advmod
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 wonder	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 wonder	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wonder	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wonder	cop
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 wonder	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wonder	det
29	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slid	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 land	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 land	nsubj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 land	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 land	advmod
34	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wonder	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 chasm	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 chasm	det
37	chasm	chasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 land	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	four		the side		safely property	tree rules
2	become	past				still; moment	all property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	slide down	past	four	the rock				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Agent
4	is a	past	rock	a wonder			fast property	tree rules
5	not land	past · do-support	four	a wonder not said here	the chasm			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme in chasm=Destination

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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