The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 84

He had not gone far when all of a sudden he saw the church!

Who acts: griffin, all · What happens: not go, see · To what, where: church

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, all), 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 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 saw	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sudden	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sudden	det
10	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 all	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 church	det
14	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	griffin					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	all	the church					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer church=Stimulus

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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