The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 187

And lo! where he had stood there remained a broomstick standing upright, round which the boys had built him!

Who acts: man, broomstick · What happens: stand, remain, build · To what, where: broomstick, boys

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, broomstick), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 stood	cc
2	lo	lo	INTJ	_	7 stood	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 lo	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 stood	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stood	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	aux
7	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 remained	advcl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 stood	advmod
9	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 broomstick	det
11	broomstick	broomstick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remained	obj
12	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 broomstick	acl
13	upright	upright	ADV	_	12 standing	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 built	punct
15	round	round	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 built	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boys	det
18	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 built	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 built	aux
20	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 remained	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 built	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect	man		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remain	past		a broomstick			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme broomstick=Attribute
3	stand	gerund	a broomstick not said here			upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	build	past · perfect · passive		the boys			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product

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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