The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 56

He stood quite still while Bellah scrambled up, then he started off, his pace growing quicker and quicker, till at length the girl could hardly see the trees and houses as they flashed past.

Who acts: stick, Bellah, pace, girl, houses · What happens: stand, scramble up, start off, grow, see, flash · To what, where: trees

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stick, Bellah, pace, girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 scrambled	mark
6	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 scrambled	nsubj
7	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 scrambled	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 started	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 started	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 started	nsubj
12	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 started	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 growing	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pace	nmod:poss
16	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 growing	nsubj
17	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 started	conj
18	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 growing	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 quicker	cc
20	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 quicker	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
22	till	till	ADP	_	24 length	case
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 length	case
24	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 girl	det
26	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
28	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	29 see	advmod
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 started	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trees	det
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 see	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 houses	cc
33	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 trees	conj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 flashed	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 flashed	nsubj
36	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 see	advcl
37	past	past	ADV	_	36 flashed	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	stick		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scramble up	past	Bellah				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	start off	past	stick		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	grow	gerund	stick's pace			quick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	could	the girl	the trees and houses	till length	hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
6	flash	past	houses = house			past property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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