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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 10

As he did so, the ground shook beneath him, and with an awful rumbling the palace disappeared, and Peronnik found himself standing close to the forest where he led the cattle to graze.

Who acts: idiot, ground, Peronnik · What happens: do, shake, rumble, disappear, find, stand · To what, where: idiot, cattle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idiot, ground, Peronnik), 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

marknsubjadvcladvmodpunctdetnsubjcaseoblpunctcccasedetamodamoddetoblconjpunctccnsubjconjobjadvcladvmodcasedetobladvmodnsubjacl:relcldetobjmarkaclpunctrootAsSCONJhePRONdidVERBsoADV,PUNCTtheDETgroundNOUNshookVERBbeneathADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJwithADPanDETawfulADJrumblingVERBtheDETpalaceNOUNdisappearedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJPeronnikPROPNfoundVERBhimselfPRONstandingVERBcloseADVtoADPtheDETforestNOUNwhereADVhePRONledVERBtheDETcattleNOUNtoPARTgrazeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_3 didmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 didnsubj
3diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 shookadvcl
4sosoADV_3 didadvmod
5,,PUNCT_3 didpunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 grounddet
7groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing8 shooknsubj
8shookshakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9beneathbeneathADP_10 himcase
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 shookobl
11,,PUNCT_19 disappearedpunct
12andandCCONJ_19 disappearedcc
13withwithADP_18 palacecase
14anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 palacedet
15awfulawfulADJDegree=Pos18 palaceamod
16rumblingrumbleVERBVerbForm=Ger18 palaceamod
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 palacedet
18palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing19 disappearedobl
19disappeareddisappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 shookconj
20,,PUNCT_23 foundpunct
21andandCCONJ_23 foundcc
22PeronnikPeronnikPROPNNumber=Sing23 foundnsubj
23foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 shookconj
24himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes23 foundobj
25standingstandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part23 foundadvcl
26closecloseADVDegree=Pos29 forestadvmod
27totoADP_29 forestcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 forestdet
29forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing25 standingobl
30wherewhereADVPronType=Rel32 ledadvmod
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 lednsubj
32ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 forestacl:relcl
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 cattledet
34cattlecattleNOUNNumber=Sing32 ledobj
35totoPART_36 grazemark
36grazegrazeVERBVerbForm=Inf34 cattleacl
37..PUNCT_8 shookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastidiotvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2shakepastthe groundbeneath idiotvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath he=Location
3rumblegerundvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4disappearpastthe ground not said herewith a awful rumbling palacevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5findpastPeronnikidiotvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
6standgerundPeronnik not said hereto the forestvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7leadpastidiotthe cattlevn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme
8grazeto-infinitiveidiot not said herethe cattle not said herevn dine-39.5 «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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