The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 115

But no sooner was he on board than the swan woke suddenly up; his head emerged from under his wing, his feet began to move in the water, and in another moment they were in the middle of the lake.

Who acts: Houarn, board, head, feet, heads · What happens: be, wake, emerge, begin, move · To what, where: board, wing, water, middle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn, board, head, feet), 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	_	11 woke	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 board	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 board	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 board	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 board	case
7	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woke	nsubj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 swan	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swan	det
10	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 board	nmod
11	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 up	advmod
13	up	up	ADV	_	11 woke	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 emerged	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 emerged	nsubj
17	emerged	emerge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 woke	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 wing	case
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 wing	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wing	nmod:poss
21	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 emerged	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 emerged	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 move	mark
27	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 move	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 middle	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 middle	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 moment	case
34	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	35 moment	det
35	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 middle	obl
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 middle	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 middle	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 middle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 middle	det
40	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woke	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 lake	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 lake	det
43	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 middle	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Houarn	board		than the swan; soon property	tree rules
2	wake	past	board				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	emerge	past	Houarn's head	Houarn's wing			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wing=Initial_Location
4	begin	past	Houarn's feet				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	move	to-infinitive	Houarn's feet not said here	the water			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
6	is	past	heads = head	the middle	moment	of the lake	tree rules

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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