The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 85

But the others persuaded her to go in, and her father was just going in after her, when up sprung on the deck a little man only seven inches high, and ordered him to stand back.

Who acts: others, court, father · What happens: persuade, go in, spring, order, stand back · To what, where: court, little man, deck, father

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, court, father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 persuaded	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 persuaded	nsubj
4	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 persuaded	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 persuaded	xcomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 going	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 going	advmod
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 persuaded	advcl
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 going	advmod
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 going	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sprung	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 sprung	advmod
21	up	up	ADP	_	22 sprung	advmod
22	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 persuaded	parataxis
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 deck	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 deck	det
25	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sprung	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sprung	obj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 seven	advmod
30	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 inches	nummod
31	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 high	obl:unmarked
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sprung	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ordered	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ordered	cc
35	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 persuaded	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ordered	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 stand	mark
38	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ordered	xcomp
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 stand	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	persuade	past	the others	court				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
2	go in	to-infinitive	court not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go in	past · progressive	court's father				after court	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spring	participle		a little man		the deck		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location man=Theme
5	order	past			father			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stand back not said to happen	to-infinitive						vn assuming_position-50 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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