The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 47

As if acknowledging a power greater than theirs, the monstrous things instantly parted to the right and left of the wizard, but closed their ranks again as they approached Bernez.

Who acts: monstrous things, things · What happens: acknowledge, part, leave, close, approach · To what, where: ranks, Bernez

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (monstrous things, things), 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	SCONJ	_	3 acknowledging	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	3 acknowledging	mark
3	acknowledging	acknowledge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 parted	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 power	det
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greater	obj
6	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 acknowledging	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 theirs	case
8	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 greater	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 acknowledging	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 things	det
11	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 parted	nsubj
13	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	14 parted	advmod
14	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 right	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 right	det
17	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 parted	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 left	cc
19	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 parted	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 wizard	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wizard	det
22	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 closed	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 closed	cc
25	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 parted	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ranks	nmod:poss
27	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 closed	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	25 closed	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 approached	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 approached	nsubj
31	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 closed	advcl
32	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 approached	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 parted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	acknowledge	gerund	the monstrous things not said here				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	part	past	the monstrous things			to the right; instantly property	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	leave	past	the monstrous things not said here			of the wizard	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of wizard=Initial_Location
4	close	past	the monstrous things not said here	herbs's ranks	again		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Patient
5	approach	past	things = thing	Bernez			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bernez=Theme

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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