The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 92

As before, the distance seemed to have wonderfully shortened, and in a moment the tavern rose up in front of Father Grumbler.

Who acts: distance, tavern · What happens: seem, have, shorten, rise up · To what, where: front

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distance, tavern), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 before	case
2	before	before	ADV	_	6 seemed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 before	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 distance	det
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seemed	xcomp
9	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	10 shortened	advmod
10	shortened	shorten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rose	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rose	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 moment	det
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rose	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tavern	det
17	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rose	nsubj
18	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 rose	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 front	case
21	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rose	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Father	case
23	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 front	nmod
24	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Father	flat
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the distance				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	have	to-infinitive	the distance not said here				tree rules
3	shorten	participle	the distance not said here			wonderfully property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	rise up	past	the tavern	front of Father	moment		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=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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