The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 17

The moment it touched the soil it became a huge rock, whose steep sides were smooth as glass, and on the top of it our hero hastily seated himself.

Who acts: moment, bag, steep sides, hero · What happens: touch, become, be, seat · To what, where: soil, huge rock, man, top

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, bag, steep sides, hero), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touched	nsubj
4	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soil	det
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touched	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rock	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rock	amod
11	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 smooth	punct
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 sides	nmod:poss
14	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sides	amod
15	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 smooth	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 smooth	cop
17	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rock	acl:relcl
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 glass	case
19	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smooth	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seated	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 seated	cc
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 top	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 top	det
24	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seated	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 top	nmod
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hero	nmod:poss
28	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seated	nsubj
29	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	30 seated	advmod
30	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touched	conj
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 seated	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	past	the moment	the soil			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soil=Co-Theme
2	become	past	bag	a huge rock			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	steep sides			as glass; smooth property	tree rules
4	seat	past	our hero	man	the top of bag	hastily property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value

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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