The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 76

Another instant and he would have stopped altogether and been lost, like others before him, when suddenly there came to him like a vision the golden bowl and the diamond lance.

Who acts: instant · What happens: stop, lose, come · To what, where: instant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instant), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 instant	det
2	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stopped	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stopped	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 stopped	aux
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	7 stopped	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lost	cc
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 lost	aux:pass
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stopped	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 others	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 others	case
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lost	obl
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lost	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 there	advmod
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 came	advmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	obl
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 vision	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 vision	det
26	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bowl	det
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bowl	amod
29	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 vision	appos
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lance	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lance	det
32	diamond	diamond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lance	amod
33	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bowl	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would · perfect	another instant				altogether property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	lose	participle · passive	another instant not said here			before instant	like others	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
3	come	past		instant	there		like a vision	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_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 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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