The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 102

Then, still looking the monster steadily in the face, she passed one hand behind her back and snatched off the veil, stepping swiftly behind the tree as she did so.

Who acts: horse · What happens: look, pass, snatch, step, do · To what, where: monster, face, one hand, back, veil, tree

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 looking	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 passed	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monster	det
6	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obj
7	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 face	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 face	det
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 passed	nsubj
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hand	nummod
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 snatched	cc
20	snatched	snatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 back	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 veil	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 veil	det
23	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snatched	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stepping	punct
25	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 passed	advcl
26	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	25 stepping	advmod
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 tree	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tree	det
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stepping	obl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stepping	advcl
33	so	so	ADV	_	32 did	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	horse not said here	the monster	the face	then; still	steadily property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme monster=Attribute
2	pass	past	horse	one hand	horse's back			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hand=Theme behind back=Destination
3	snatch	participle	horse not said here		the veil			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent off veil=Source
4	step	gerund	horse not said here		the tree		swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind tree=Trajectory
5	do	past	horse					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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