The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 70

He was greatly astonished, sprang from his horse, and looked everywhere to see if no one were hidden under the bridge; but no one was there.

Who acts: thought, one · What happens: be, spring, look, see, hide · To what, where: one, bridge

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, one), 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	4 astonished	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 astonished	cop
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	4 astonished	advmod
4	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sprang	punct
6	sprang	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 astonished	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 horse	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 astonished	conj
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 looked	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 looked	advcl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 hidden	mark
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hidden	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hidden	aux:pass
20	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 see	ccomp
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 bridge	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bridge	det
23	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hidden	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 there	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 there	cc
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 there	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 there	cop
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 astonished	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	thought			astonished, greatly property	tree rules
2	spring	gerund	thought not said here			from thought's horse	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory
3	look	past	thought not said here			everywhere property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	to-infinitive	thought not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	hide a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		no one	the bridge		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under bridge=Location
6	is	past	no one			there property	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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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