The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 49
But suddenly the tall stone that was leading stopped straight in front of Bernez, so that no other could get past.
What happens: stop, get · To what, where: tall stone, front, no
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: 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 | _ | 9 stopped | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 stone | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stone | amod |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | aux:pass |
| 8 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stopped | aux:pass |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 front | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Bernez | case |
| 14 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 get | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 get | obl |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 no | fixed |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stopped | conj |
| 22 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 get | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past · passive | the tall stone | front of Bernez | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | could | no | past property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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